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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one time Tuzia does not do Artemisia's washing?
(a) When she has sex wtih suitors.
(b) When she bleeds.
(c) When she is sick with flu.
(d) On Christmas and Easter.

2. What happened to Artemisia the day after her mother died?
(a) She threw up.
(b) She broke her leg.
(c) She contracted the Plague.
(d) She got her period for the first time.

3. What had Artemisia expected Tassi to propose when he asked her to share his studio, but that he failed to propose?
(a) Financial partnership.
(b) Asking her father if they could move to Florence.
(c) Creating an artists' commune together.
(d) Marriage.

4. What does Rebecca tell the crowd assembled to stone her sister Susanna?
(a) She is guilty of what she is accused of.
(b) She is raving and terrified, but she is righteous.
(c) Her only sin is not loving her sister enough.
(d) She will exact revenge on the village from the afterlife.

5. What was the first thing Orazio asked Artemisia to do for him in the studio after her mother died?
(a) Fetch a palette knife.
(b) Stretch the canvass.
(c) Write a letter.
(d) Boil the glue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Prudentia tell Artemisia about who saved Susanna's life?

2. What is the first thing Artemisia says to Tassi the day he comes to her studio and rapes her?

3. What does Artemisia's mother tell her Judith had to decide right before she killed the Assyrian military leader?

4. How did Artemisia ruin a canvass when she was five or six years old?

5. What does Daniel tell Susanna is his impression of her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tassi act when he sees Artemisia for the first time after his assault on her?

2. What does Artemisia focus on in her own painting of Judith that she has not seen other renditions of this painting bring to the fore?

3. What does Susanna say for herself at her stoning?

4. What does Artemisia realize with horror about her body some weeks after Tassi's assault?

5. What does Tassi do in a rage the first time he comes back to see Artemisia after she rebuffs his sexual advances?

6. Who does Artemisia envision helping her after her rape in Part IV?

7. What does Judith tell Artemisia about why she should ask her father to bring charges against Tassi?

8. How does Judith ingratiate herself with the captain of the Assyrian army, Holofernes?

9. What does Tassi say that immediately turns Artemisia off from him in Part III?

10. How does Rebecca act when Susanna is just about to be stoned?

(see the answer keys)

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