The Sleep of Reason | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Part 1, Scene 1

1. What artifacts does King Ferdinand keep beside him?

A sewing basket, a spyglass, and a pistol.

2. What activity occupies King Ferdinand?

Embroidery.

3. What weapon does Goya keep near him?

A shotgun.

4. Why did King Ferdinand learn needlework?

To calm his nerves.

5. Where did King Ferdinand learn needlework?

In exile.

6. What does King Ferdinand think needlework would do for his subjects?

Make them more docile.

7. How many of Goya's "black paintings" are seen during this play?

Fourteen.

8. In what city does Goya live?

Madrid.

9. In what year does the action of this play take place?

1823.

10. What happens to the dialogue enclosed between these << >> symbols?

It is spoken but unheard.

11. What is unusual about the dialogue in quotation marks?

It is actual Goya text.

12. How has King Ferdinand dealt with liberal...
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