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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the mother describe as "a man, children, and for everybody else a wall two feet thick"?
(a) Man's view of life.
(b) Her life.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Privacy.

2. Where does Act 1, Scene 2 take place?
(a) The vineyard.
(b) Leonardo's house.
(c) The mother's house.
(d) The son's house.

3. Who is described as "a very nice young woman"?
(a) The neighbor.
(b) The bride.
(c) The mother.
(d) The fiancee's mother.

4. What reason does the neighbor give the mother when she leaves?
(a) Because the men will be in from the fields soon.
(b) Because she needs to cook.
(c) Because the mother wants her to.
(d) Because she is tired.

5. Who does the mother reminisce about by noting that he is now the same age as the bride would be on her wedding day?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her dead son.
(c) Her grandchild.
(d) Her son.

6. What flower does the mother say her husband smells like?
(a) Carnation.
(b) Rose.
(c) Violet.
(d) Daisy.

7. What does the mother's neighbor say is responsible for cutting off a young neighborhood boy's arms?
(a) A car.
(b) A tractor.
(c) A machine.
(d) A knife.

8. How long does it take the mother to get to the bride's home?
(a) 1 day.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 4 hours.
(d) 8 hours.

9. What item does not appear on the gift that the son buys for his bride?
(a) Rose.
(b) Cross.
(c) Boat.
(d) Swallow.

10. Who is described as "clean as a sheet in the sun"?
(a) The son.
(b) The bride.
(c) Leonardo.
(d) The mother.

11. What type of drink does Leonardo's wife offer him?
(a) Pineapple.
(b) Orange.
(c) Lemon.
(d) Lime.

12. Who says, "He's down there stretched out, with his eyeballs bulging..."?
(a) Leonardo's wife.
(b) The mother-in-law.
(c) The bride.
(d) The mother.

13. Where does Leonardo tell his mother-in-law his horse has been after she comments that it looks very tired?
(a) Town.
(b) The field.
(c) A friend's house.
(d) The weighing station.

14. Who tells Leonardo's wife that he has been riding his horse to the edge of the plain?
(a) The woman who gathers capers.
(b) The bride.
(c) The blacksmith.
(d) The young girl.

15. Who is the author of the play?
(a) Federico Munez.
(b) Paul Luis Manuel.
(c) Federico Garcia Lorca.
(d) Garcia Lopez.

Short Answer Questions

1. What positive attributes does the bride's father not mention about her?

2. What does the bride's father claim wouldn't grow on his land at one time, but now does?

3. What item does the mother ask her son if he is wearing?

4. What does the mother claim the son "never touches"?

5. What is the mother describing in the following text: "They let them eat there, and smoke, and make music if they want to!"?

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