My Last Duchess

Question 1

Since none puts by the …………….. i have drawn for you but ………

Answer 1

curtain, I

Question 2

I choose never to ……………

Answer 2

stoop

Question 3

A ……………. to soon made ………………

Answer 3

smile, glad

Question 4

my ………… of a 900 year old name

Answer 4

gift

Question 5

I gave …………………………. Then all smiles …………………

Answer 5

commands, stopped

Question 6

Who was Lucrezia?

Answer 6

Lucrezia was part of the Medici family, an incredibly wealthy banking family that gained political prominence during the 15th century. Although the Medici family was wealthy, they did not have the social status that the Este family would have had as long-standing members of the aristocracy. Lucrezia died at seventeen, only three years after the couple had married. Though she is thought to have died of tuberculosis, it was widely speculated that she had been poisoned by her husband, who was then seeking the hand of Barbara, the eighth daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and a woman of significantly more social importance than his young wife