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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 Baglioni chuckle to himself on the staircase?

2. What is the one subject Giovanni says Baglioni is barred from speaking to him about?

3. What does Beatrice say when Giovanni offers her the antidote?

4. What does Giovanni kill to prove to Beatrice he has been infected by the poisons?

5. What does the author say had colored Beatrice's manner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beatrice react when Giovanni approaches the purple plant?

2. What do Beatrice and Giovanni talk about together?

3. How does Beatrice stop Giovanni from touching her?

4. What does Rappaccini think about his daughter's to be part of society?

5. How does the one time Beatrice touches Giovanni affect?

6. How does Giovanni express his anger his anger to Beatrice?

7. Why doesn't Giovanni want to see Baglioni in this section?

8. What is the story that Baglioni tells Giovanni in this section?

9. Why does Beatrice say she is so angry at her father?

10. What does Baglioni say when he is alone on the staircase?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would Beatrice coped with life if she had lived? Could she ever escaped the garden?

Essay Topic 2

In what way is innocence in a important element of the story? What does the author express about innocence and people regard it within society?

Essay Topic 3

What problems does the story suggest Rappaccini had in the past to become the man he did? How does he project his problems onto his daughter Beatrice?

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