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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. How long does Leonardo date his wife's cousin?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 6 months.

2. What does Leonardo's wife ask that he buy for their baby?
(a) A cradle.
(b) A cap with ribbons.
(c) Food.
(d) A dress.

3. What does the baby do after the lullaby is finished?
(a) Smiles.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Cries.
(d) Laughs.

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

5. Why does the neighbor tell the mother that she dislikes the bride's mother?
(a) Because she was mean.
(b) Because she didn't love her children.
(c) Because she had no love for her husband.
(d) Because she wouldn't speak to anyone.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reason does the son give his mother to explain why there are no trees on his bride's land?

3. Whom does the mother question her neighbor about in Act 1, Scene 1?

4. Finish the line from the lullaby: "With a branch of dreams, and a dream of ____".

5. Who says, "She might be right. That girl has depths"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the servant describe to the bride's father how Leonardo and his wife arrived from the church after the wedding?

2. What does the bride ask of the groom just before they are to be married?

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

4. How does the mother react towards the bride's pleas to her after the two mens' deaths?

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

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

7. How does the bride's father react when the mother says her son can sell her land when she has died?

8. Why does the mother become so angry when her son asks for a knife to cut some grapes?

9. How does Leonardo react when his wife asks why he is leaving the house again at the end of Act 1, Scene 2?

10. How does the mother act towards the bride when she first enters the house after the mens' deaths?

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