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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action takes place that has the Bishop stepping in to check on Sierva?
(a) Sierva attempts suicide.
(b) Sierva tries to run away and goes to the church for help.
(c) Sagunta, in an attempt to cure Sierva, ends up rolling around naked with the girl while covered in grease.
(d) Sagunta tries to replace all of Sierva's "tainted" blood.

2. Who is raising Sierva?
(a) The Bishop.
(b) Ygnacio.
(c) Dominga de Adviento.
(d) Bernarda.

3. What does the Bishop tell the Marquis about his daughter?
(a) She is going to die.
(b) She is not mad, but undisciplined.
(c) She must be baptized.
(d) She is possessed by demons.

4. How does Bernarda know Ygnacio before they got married?
(a) She held his business accounts.
(b) Ygnacio was her client.
(c) She made dresses for his first wife.
(d) Her father was the overseer to Ygnacio's family.

5. What is the Bishop afflicted with?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Leprosy.
(c) Kidney problems.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening to the crypts at Santa Clara at the beginning of the novel?

2. Who reminds Don Ygnacio about the animal biting Sierva?

3. What does Ygnacio's father forbid?

4. Where does the next scene of chapter one take place?

5. What does the Marquis do for Sierva, despite what Dr. Abrenuncio tells him?

(see the answer key)

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