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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Leonardo talking about when he says, "when he's dead he's dead"?
(a) The bride's father.
(b) His son.
(c) The son/groom.
(d) His horse.

2. According to the wedding chant by the girls and youths, what color ribbons does the groom tie on the bride's wreath?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Gold.
(d) White.

3. What does the son/groom tell the bride her orange blossoms are made of?
(a) Silk.
(b) They are real.
(c) Wax.
(d) Paper.

4. Who does the servant ask Leonardo about that he forgets and then remembers 'as in a dream'?
(a) His son.
(b) The bride.
(c) The son/groom.
(d) His wife.

5. Who informs the crowd that the bride and Leonardo have run off together?
(a) The bride's father.
(b) The mother.
(c) The servant.
(d) Leonardo's wife.

6. What does Leonardo do when the bride and groom arrive at the home after the wedding?
(a) Shakes the groom's hand.
(b) Yells at his wife.
(c) He leaves the room.
(d) Kisses the bride.

7. What does the mother say she did with her dying son's blood?
(a) Put her hands in it and licked them.
(b) Wiped it on her clothes.
(c) Kept it in a jar.
(d) Laid in it.

8. Who is the mother angry to see at the wedding?
(a) The bride.
(b) Leonardo.
(c) Leonardo's wife.
(d) Several members of the Felix family.

9. Who says "Shine the waistcoat, undo the buttons"?
(a) The son/groom.
(b) The moon.
(c) A woodcutter.
(d) The beggar woman.

10. Who says, "I am crazy, with everything I've had to hold down and hold in"?
(a) The son/groom.
(b) The bride's father.
(c) The mother.
(d) The bride.

11. Which member of the Felix family does the mother say started murdering others?
(a) The father.
(b) The great grandfather.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) The grandfather.

12. What two objects does one woodcutter compare the bride and Leonardo to?
(a) Two rivers, one heart.
(b) Two empty pitchers, two dry streams.
(c) A bird and flower.
(d) A cross and barrel.

13. Who describes marriage as "a shining white bed. And a woman. And a man."?
(a) The servant.
(b) The bride's father.
(c) The son.
(d) The bride.

14. What body part does the son/groom say belongs to his father and brother?
(a) His arm.
(b) His feet.
(c) His heart.
(d) His head.

15. Who says, "I may bear it but I don't forgive it"?
(a) The son/groom.
(b) The servant.
(c) The mother.
(d) The bride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase is repeated several times by the moon in its first speech?

2. How does the chant begin that the servants announce as the bride is waking up?

3. What animal does the servant compare the groom's breath stroking a shoulder to?

4. What does the mother and bride's father refer to as "the one hope left"?

5. What color branch do the woodcutters ask death to give to the couple?

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