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

2. Why does Sierva lie to the doctor?
(a) She does not want the doctor to know that she lied about the bite.
(b) She does not want the doctor to know she was bitten badly.
(c) She does not trust the doctor not to send her away.
(d) She picked it up from the slaves when they use it as a survival tactic.

3. How does the Marquis learn to read and write?
(a) He watches from outside a classroom window while a teacher goes through the alphabet.
(b) He reads the Bible.
(c) He communicates with the mad woman next door.
(d) He simply picked up a book and figured it out.

4. What do the fireworks remind Bernarda and Ygnacio about?
(a) Sierva's birthday.
(b) The death of Ygnacio's first wife.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Their wedding day.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is raising Sierva?

2. What does Ygnacio refuse to do with his wife?

3. What animal stays behind while the others run off on the estate of Ygnacio's father?

4. What is strange about Dulce Olivia?

5. What does Don Ygnacio admit to the doctor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sierva lie to Dr. Abrenuncio?

2. What is the connection between the skull found in the crypts of the convent and the author's memories of a legend?

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

4. What happens to Sierva while in the marketplace?

5. Describe Ygnacio as a youth.

6. Describe the character of the Bishop.

7. How does Bernarda spend her time on the sugar plantation and in what condition does she return?

8. How does Sierva's relationship with her father improve in Chapter 2?

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

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

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