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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bernarda tell the servants to do when she first enters the room in Act 1, Part 1?
(a) Be quiet.
(b) Make dinner.
(c) Clean up.
(d) Make drinks.

2. What is the name of Bernarda's oldest daughter?
(a) Angustias.
(b) Magdalena.
(c) Amelia.
(d) Martirio.

3. How many daughters does Bernarda have?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

4. What do Amelia, Magdalena, Martirio, and Angustias sit doing with Poncia at the beginning of Act 2, Part 1?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Painting.
(d) Eating.

5. What do the servants' complaints change to when Bernarda enters the room in Act 1, Part 1?
(a) Cries of sympathy.
(b) Silence.
(c) Wails of grief.
(d) Laughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time did Poncia say she actually heard Pepe leave the house in Act 2, Part 1?

2. Where does Poncia go to listen to the last prayers of the day?

3. Which of the daughters does not run out to see Pepe when he arrives at the house in Act 1, Part 3?

4. How does Adela seem when she comes into the room in Act 2, Part 1?

5. What does Maria Josefa say that she wants to do near the end of Act 1, Part 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Martirio say is wrong when Amelia asks her in Act 2, Part 2?

2. What does Poncia say women must deal with after they are married?

3. What does Bernarda tell her daughters when they begin arguing in Act 2, Part 2?

4. What does Bernarda suggest her daughters do during their eight years of mourning?

5. What is the nature of Maria Josefa's interaction with a lamb in the play?

6. Why is a large crowd gathering near Bernarda's house that the daughters watch in Act 2, Part 3?

7. What does Adela say about mourning in Act 1, Part 3?

8. What do Bernarda and the mourners make small talk about at the beginning of Act 1, Part 2?

9. In what way does Angustias suggest Poncia is lying in Act 2, Part 3?

10. How does Poncia say women without men act even with family?

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