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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person who comes to the door in Act 1, Part 1, say they always get from the house?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Jewels.
(c) Money.
(d) Scraps from the table.

2. What words do the two servants use to describe Bernarda before she returns home in Act 1, Part 1?
(a) Sad and melancholy.
(b) Happy and cheerful.
(c) Excited.
(d) Tyrannical and demanding.

3. How does Poncia say she saw Adela sitting at her window the night before in Act 2, Part 1?
(a) Crying.
(b) In her nightgown.
(c) Naked.
(d) Smiling.

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

5. Who are the only ones not to go out after the Servant comes in saying Bernarda wants to see her daughters in Act 2, Part 1?
(a) Magdalena and Amelia.
(b) Adela and Martirio.
(c) Amelia and Magdalena.
(d) Adela and Poncia.

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

7. What do the servants' complaints change to when Bernarda enters the room in Act 1, Part 1?
(a) Wails of grief.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Cries of sympathy.
(d) Silence.

8. What does Maria Josefa say the women in the house's hearts will turn to near the end of Act 1, Part 3?
(a) Dust.
(b) Stone.
(c) Ash.
(d) Nothing.

9. Who says that it's better to never even look at a man and that she's been afraid of men since she was a girl?
(a) Magdalena.
(b) Adela.
(c) Amelia.
(d) Martirio.

10. What does Maria Josefa ask Bernarda to give back of hers in Act 1, Part 3?
(a) Her string of pearls.
(b) Her black dress.
(c) Her lace veil.
(d) Her picture.

11. What is the name of Bernarda's oldest daughter?
(a) Amelia.
(b) Angustias.
(c) Martirio.
(d) Magdalena.

12. Who does the servant tell Bernarda was looking at the men on the patio?
(a) Martirio.
(b) Adela.
(c) Amelia.
(d) Angustias.

13. What does Poncia tell Adela will probably happen to Angustias soon after she marries Pepe that will allow her to marry him?
(a) Poncia will kill her.
(b) Pepe will divorce her.
(c) She will die in childbirth.
(d) Adela will intervene.

14. Which of the daughters says the real reason a young woman cannot leave her house is because she is afraid of Bernarda?
(a) Magdalena.
(b) Martirio.
(c) Angustias.
(d) Adela.

15. What does Poncia say about the woman and the men who abducted her?
(a) They were morally sound.
(b) They were sane.
(c) There were not from the village.
(d) They were good people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bernarda tell the servants to take her mother so she cannot be seen by the villagers?

2. What does Martirio say is one of the few good things she has left in her life?

3. What does Bernarda tell Poncia to bring out to the men who gave her money?

4. Complete this sentence spoken by Poncia in the play, "In the paternoster his voice went up and up and up like a ________ slowly being filled with water."

5. How many daughters does Bernarda have?

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