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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3 Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a woman come and do for the men working in the fields?
(a) Food.
(b) Sing and dance.
(c) Intimacy.
(d) Women.

2. What does Adela says she needs to do when she gets up from the dinner table in Act 3, Part 1?
(a) Go for a walk.
(b) Take a bath.
(c) Wash dishes.
(d) Ride the horse.

3. Who does the Servant say she is glad will never force her to have sex with him?
(a) Bernarda's late husband.
(b) Bernarda's brother.
(c) Bernarda's father.
(d) Pepe.

4. Who tells how her husband came to her window and proposed by saying he wanted to touch her?
(a) The Servant.
(b) Magdalena.
(c) Bernarda.
(d) Poncia.

5. What does Adela say is the worst possible time for her to be doing at this time of her life in Act 1, Part 3?
(a) Be in love.
(b) Have a baby.
(c) Go out of town.
(d) Be in mourning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Complete this sentence spoken by the Servant in the play, "Floors, cupboards, pedestals, iron bed frames polished with oil, while those of us who live in huts of mud with only a spoon and a plate to our name have to swallow the bitter ______."

2. What part of the daughters' clothes does Bernarda say they cannot change in Act 1, Part 2?

3. What does a woman who was abducted from her home return the following morning with, according to the story in Act 1, Part 3?

4. Complete the sentence by Martirio in the play, "Yes, yes, a young mule that needs to be ______ in."

5. What does Adela say she is going into the village wearing the next day after the funeral?

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