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

2. What is happening to the crypts at Santa Clara at the beginning of the novel?
(a) They have been destroyed by an earthquake.
(b) They have been turned into a tourist attraction.
(c) They are being emptied.
(d) They have been flooded.

3. What is unique about the skull?
(a) Copper colored hair is growing from it.
(b) There are tribal designs carved into the bone.
(c) The teeth are all golden.
(d) There is no damage to it.

4. Why are the slaves waiting in the harbor?
(a) They are to be freed.
(b) Quarantine.
(c) They are hiding.
(d) They are being sold.

5. What African name does Sierva take on for herself?
(a) Maria Dominga.
(b) Mandinga du Martia.
(c) Maria Mandinga.
(d) Mary de la Santos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bites Sierva in the marketplace?

2. What is the station of the person raising Sierva?

3. How does Ygnacio's wife die?

4. How did the Marquis's father view him when he was younger?

5. What do the fireworks remind Bernarda and Ygnacio about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sort of man does Don Ygnacio appear to be in Chapter 1?

2. How is rabies treated by the citizens of New Grenada from the first chapter?

3. What condition does the beginning of the book find Bernarda in and why?

4. What happens to Sierva while in the marketplace?

5. Why does Sierva prefer to live in the slave quarters instead of the mansion?

6. Why must the convent not cut Sierva's hair?

7. What is special about the tall slave girl brought into New Grenada from the ship?

8. Describe Bernarda's relationship with Judas.

9. Why does Ygnacio's father object to his son marrying Dulce Olivia?

10. How does Ygnacio's first wife deal with her husband?

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