1. What causes Giovanni to sigh?

2. What does Giovanni find particularly eye-catching in the garden?

3. To what are the garden and gardener compared?

4. What does the gardener do when examining the plant that Giovanni noticed?

5. What images does the voice suggest to Giovanni?

6. What does Beatrice do that her father does not?

7. What does Giovanni dream?

8. What does Baglioni find objectionable about Rappaccini?

9. What is Rappaccini's particular interest?

10. Why might Baglioni have a motivation to lie about Rappaccini?

11. What shocking incident occurs?

12. What does Beatrice say she would like to give Giovanni in return? Why doesn't she?

13. What happens to the bouquet Giovanni gives to Beatrice?

14. What sort of look does Rappaccini give Giovanni?

15. What warning does Baglioni give Giovanni?

16. What possibility does Giovanni consider?

17. What is shocking or objectionable about the flowers' appearance?

18. What does Beatrice ask Giovanni to do?

19. Why does Beatrice blush?

20. What has Beatrice forgotten for the first time in her life?

21. What does Giovanni do that frightens Beatrice?

22. What has happened to Giovanni's hand?

23. How do Giovanni and Beatrice feel about each other?

24. What happens in the classic book Baglioni has been reading? Why does he relate this story to Giovanni?

25. How does Giovanni respond to Baglioni's tale? Which of his actions reveal that he believes the professor's story?

26. What does Baglioni give to Giovanni? What is it supposed to do?

27. What does Giovanni assume about Beatrice's outer and inner nature?

28. What does Giovanni realize about himself?

29. Why is Giovanni incapable of seeing Beatrice's true nature?

30. How did the plant come into being? What is its relation to Beatrice?

31. How does Giovanni behave toward Beatrice?

32. What does Beatrice say her intentions were? Does she resemble in any way the woman Giovanni has accused her of being?

33. What does Giovanni realize? Why is it too late?

34. Why is Beatrice shrinking from Giovanni now?

35. What does Beatrice ask Giovanni?