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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 286 - 333, The Marriage Portrait of Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara - The Underpainting and the Overpainting).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jacopo say Lucrezia cannot do in Part V?
(a) Eat any more.
(b) Dance.
(c) Stay in the fortezza.
(d) Drink.

2. What does Alfonso send Lucrezia a painting of before their wedding?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A bird.
(c) A stone marten.
(d) A lion.

3. What does Alfonso tell Lucrezia is always resolved to his satisfaction?
(a) Gardening matters.
(b) Everything.
(c) Matters of fashion.
(d) Nothing.

4. Which lady servant does Nunciata arrange for Lucrezia?
(a) Michaela.
(b) Emilia.
(c) Clelia.
(d) Helena.

5. What does Lucrezia grip in the carriage before she leaves Florence?
(a) Her glass animal.
(b) The beads on her crown.
(c) Her tiger's tail.
(d) The cross on her rosary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion does Alfonso's mother choose to practice?

2. What does Lucrezia try to convince herself of at the start of Part II?

3. What does Alfonso give Lucrezia as a surprise gift in Part III?

4. What is Lucrezia's mother thinking about when Lucrezia is conceived?

5. What does Lucrezia think Sofia would have made a wonderful one of if she had been born a man?

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