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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3 Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color are the pitchers Poncia hands out in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) Black.
(b) Green.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

2. What does Adela do before shouting that the woman at the top of the hill should be freed?
(a) Cries.
(b) Pushes Bernarda.
(c) Grabs her stomach.
(d) Laughs.

3. What does Martirio shout should happen to the woman at the top of the hill?
(a) She be freed.
(b) She be killed.
(c) She should be punished.
(d) She be imprisoned.

4. Who is said to be locked up in another room of the house in Act 1, Part 1?
(a) Amelia.
(b) Martirio.
(c) Bernarda's mother.
(d) Adela.

5. What does the Servant say Bernarda's mother is all dressed in near the end of Act 1, Part 2?
(a) Pants and shirts.
(b) Dresses and jewels.
(c) Rags.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time did Poncia say she actually heard Pepe leave the house in Act 2, Part 1?

2. Complete the sentence by Bernarda in the play, "You've told me that ________ times already, and I have chosen not to answer you."

3. What does Bernarda tell her daughters that she will do as long as she's alive in Act 1, Part 3?

4. Which of the daughters does not run out to see Pepe when he arrives at the house in Act 1, Part 3?

5. Complete the sentence spoken by Bernarda in the play, "Yes, to fill my house with the ____ of their underskirts and their venomous tongues."

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