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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who slyly suggests that Adela plans on giving her body to Pepe?
(a) Amelia.
(b) Magdalena.
(c) Martirio.
(d) Poncia.

4. Finish this sentence spoken by Poncia in the play, "The rest of them: lots of fine lace and linen camisoles, but nothing to their names but bread and ______".
(a) Wine.
(b) Water.
(c) Cheese.
(d) Liver.

5. Complete the sentence spoken by Bernarda in the play, "Yes, to fill my house with the ____ of their underskirts and their venomous tongues."
(a) Heat.
(b) Liquid.
(c) Sweat.
(d) Love.

6. How many years does Bernarda say she and her family will have to be in mourning?
(a) One year.
(b) Eight years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Six months.

7. 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.

8. What does the Servant run out doing at the end of Act 1, Part 1?
(a) Weeping.
(b) Yelling.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Smiling.

9. What part of the daughters' clothes does Bernarda say they cannot change in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) Their shoes.
(b) Their coats.
(c) Their headscarves.
(d) Their dresses.

10. What do Amelia, Magdalena, Martirio, and Angustias sit doing with Poncia at the beginning of Act 2, Part 1?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Eating.
(d) Painting.

11. Who has just died at the beginning of the play?
(a) Bernarda's mother.
(b) Bernarda's father.
(c) Bernarda's husband.
(d) Bernarda's grandmother.

12. What does the Servant say Bernarda's mother wished to do in Act 1, Part 2?
(a) Have a baby.
(b) Get married.
(c) Eat.
(d) Die.

13. What does Bernarda claim is the only reason the mourners came to her house after they had gone out?
(a) To steal money.
(b) To snoop and criticize.
(c) To help out.
(d) To offer sympathy.

14. Complete the sentence by Poncia in the play, "Cling to that ______, and forget him."
(a) Hope.
(b) Joy.
(c) Dream.
(d) Love.

15. What reason does Bernarda give Angustias to wipe off her makeup?
(a) She doesn't need it.
(b) It's in poor taste.
(c) In memory of her father.
(d) It looks bad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Complete the sentence spoken by Bernarda in the play, "With the ___ that opens all doors, and the hand that closes them."

2. Complete the sentence by Adela in the play, "Sometimes she looks into my room to see if I'm ________."

3. What does Poncia say men find soon after becoming married?

4. Who is said to be locked up in another room of the house in Act 1, Part 1?

5. Complete the sentence spoken by Bernarda in the play, "But they forget them when you put a plate of ______ in front of them".

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