Blood Wedding Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Blood Wedding Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does not appear on the gift that the son buys for his bride?

2. Who is described as "clean as a sheet in the sun"?

3. Who says, "Whenever I leave you I feel a great emptiness and a kind of lump in my throat"?

4. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?

5. Who says, "I'm happy. When I say 'yes', I say it because I mean it"?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the wife shows surprise at hearing that Leonardo has been taking his horse across the plain, how does Leonardo react towards her?

2. After Leonardo gives his excuse for being out on his horse, what does his wife begin doing?

3. What do Leonardo and the bride discuss while they are hiding in the woods in Act 3, Scene 1?

4. What do Leonardo and his wife argue about before leaving for the church?

5. What does the mother tell her son she thinks of his getting married?

6. What reason does the bride give her servant for not wanting to get married?

7. What prompts the son to ask his mother, "Would you like me to kill them"?

8. What reasons does Leonardo give his wife for being rude to the girl who tells them about the son buying gifts for the bride?

9. How does the bride react when the son asks her about their wedding day during her first meeting with the mother?

10. What do the mother and her neighbor talk about when they first enter the house after they have learned of the son's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the characters' struggles with being an individual versus being a member of society. What visible boundaries do the characters have for trying to do both?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the symbolism of horses in the play. What do they represent? Are horses used to personify certain characters?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the strained relationships in the play. What is the relationship between the characters that shows the most strain? What are the reasons or motivations for their strain?

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