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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 was Bernarda Cabrera's position before she and Ygnacio married?
(a) Slave.
(b) Dressmaker.
(c) Businesswoman.
(d) Prostitute.

2. What are the slaves sent to do towards the end of chapter one?
(a) Beg for money and food.
(b) Gather up their animals to be sold.
(c) Find a doctor for Sierva.
(d) Find herbs that are meant to cure Sierva.

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

4. What animal stays behind while the others run off on the estate of Ygnacio's father?
(a) A horse.
(b) A sheep.
(c) A mastiff.
(d) A pig.

5. What religion besides Christianity does Dominga follow?
(a) Okolado.
(b) Olokun.
(c) Satanism.
(d) Wicca.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What instrument does Ygnacio play for Sierva?

3. Whom does Ygnacio marry when he returns to his father's house?

4. Why does Sierva lie to the doctor?

5. What bites Sierva in the marketplace?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Ygnacio as a youth.

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

4. Describe Bernarda's relationship with Judas.

5. Why does Sierva have a strong affinity for the African culture?

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

7. What treatments does Sierva receive in her father's effort to cure her "madness?"

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

9. How does Bernarda force the Marquis into marriage?

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

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