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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 does Leocadia call Goya?

2. Who is Vicente Lopez?

3. What special effort has Dr. Arrieta made for Goya?

4. Why does Dr. Arrieta determine that Leocadia is nervous and distraught?

5. What does the audience learn about Leocadia's husband from Gumersinda's remarks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dr. Arrieta offend Father Duaso?

2. Why does Dr. Arrieta not expect help for himself from Father Duaso?

3. What quality does Father Duaso display when questioned by King Ferdinand about Goya?

4. What is revealed in Part 1, Scene 1 about how King Ferdinand deals with his enemies?

5. What does Leocadia lie to Goya about in their first conversation?

6. What has Goya done with his property that alarms Leocadia?

7. What does Dr. Arrieta infer from Father Duaso's statement that they cannot visit Goya until after 8:00?

8. In what has Goya defied King Ferdinand?

9. How does King Ferdinand know that Goya opposes him?

10. What does Dr. Arrieta say to assure Leocadia that Goya is not mad?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A great work of literature needs to have elements of universality. If you are not a great painter who has lost his hearing or his political security, you are not like Goya in those ways. And yet Dr. Arrieta tells Goya that we are all deaf and deserving of pity. In your essay, explain what you think Dr. Arrieta meant, tell whether you agree with him, and explain why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout history, Christians have persecuted others in the name of Jesus Christ, a result which seems strange considering his teachings of love and tolerance. Write an essay explaining your theory of how a scene such as you read in Part Two, Scene Four, could happen in Jesus' name.

Essay Topic 3

Goya says that the walls where he painted the Black Paintings "ooze fear." He says that he painted the things he feared. Select one of the paintings to explain what Goya might have feared when he painted it. Be sure to include the personal and or political situation that might have created the fear he expressed.

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