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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the slightest shift do to perspective, according to Artemisia?

2. What does Tassi tell Artemisia about his opinion of her father's friendship?

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

4. What does Orazio tell Artemisia that Tassi is already doing to discredit her?

5. What does Tassi say about Artemisia's own Susanna painting the first time he comes to her studio after she rebuffs his advances?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Artemisia need Orazio to bring charges against Tassi?

2. What does Artemisia spend so much more time on when she paints than faces?

3. What does Judith take with her back to her village's gates to prove that she did what she did to Holofernes?

4. Why does Daniel rule in favor of Susanna and against the Elders?

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

6. What does Tassi say to Artemisia immediately after she rebuffs his sexual overtures in Part III?

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

8. 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?

9. What does Artemisia say to Orazio that seems to make him agree to bring charges against Tassi?

10. What shocks Artemisia in the immediate aftermath of Tassi's crime against her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Tino Tassi seem to gain and maintain his position of influence and power in society? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Artemisia feel about Tino Tassi when they first meet? When and how do her feelings for Tassi change? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How do Artemisia's experiences as a woman and eventually as a survivor of sexual assault affect her work as a painter and infuse it with qualities that men's artistry of her time seems to lack? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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