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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 is Baglioni a professor of?

2. Who passes Baglioni and Giovanni as they talk?

3. What does Rappaccini think all medicinal virtues are comprised with?

4. What are the strange plants doing to each other as they bask in the sun?

5. Which of the following words does the author use to describe Rappaccini?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Baglioni's opinion of Rappaccini?

2. Why does Giovanni go with Lisabetta if he is so suspicious of her?

3. How does Rappaccino react to seeing both Baglioni and Giovanni?

4. How has Giovanni's changed at the beginning of this story?

5. How has spending so much time in her father's garden affected Beatrice?

6. How does the insect die?

7. Why does Baglioni say Giovanni should be wary of Rappaccini?

8. What is Baglioni's opinion on Beatrice?

9. What does this section say about the relationship Baglioni has with Rappaccini?

10. How does the lizard die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine what the following elements of the story symbolize.

1. The purple flower.

2. The cracked marble fountain.

3. The silver phial.

4. The spider.

Essay Topic 2

How do Rappaccini and Baglioni use Beatrice and Giovanni for their own needs? What comment does their abuse of the two youngsters make on the nature of science, academia and the intellect?

Essay Topic 3

In what way is Baglioni the evil character in the story? How do his actions affect the other characters?

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