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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Servant and Poncia say all of Bernarda's daughters are that would cause their blood ties to be forgotten?
(a) Protective and angry.
(b) Angry and jealous.
(c) Happy and dumb.
(d) Silly.

2. Complete the sentence by Martirio in the play, "Yes, yes, a young mule that needs to be ______ in."
(a) Broken.
(b) Wrangled.
(c) Lassoed.
(d) Brought.

3. What news does the Servant bring in about something happening at the top of the street from the house?
(a) A person being hanged.
(b) Pepe.
(c) A huge crowd gathering.
(d) Adela running away.

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

5. What do Adela, Martirio, and Amelia come back into the room commenting on in Act 3, Part 1?
(a) How dark it is.
(b) How it smells outside.
(c) How cold the house is.
(d) How hot it is.

6. Where does Bernarda say she will be taking the stallion the next morning in Act 3, Part 1?
(a) To another farm.
(b) To Pepe's house.
(c) To their neighbors.
(d) To the mares.

7. How many verses of her song does Maria Josefa sing in Act 3, Part 2?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

8. What does Adela say will be enough for her just so she can be free in Act 3, Part 2?
(a) Be a daughter.
(b) Be a mother.
(c) Be Pepe's mistress.
(d) Be a sister.

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

10. Complete the sentence by Martirio in the play, "I couldn't care less what happens above the _________."
(a) Stars.
(b) Heavens.
(c) Rooftops.
(d) Floors.

11. Complete the sentence by Maria Josefa in the play, "This child will have white hair, and there will be another child and another and they will all have snow-white hair, and we will be like the _____ of the sea."
(a) Heart.
(b) Waves.
(c) Moves.
(d) Colors.

12. Who comes in the room and accuses Poncia of lying about Pepe in Act 2, Part 3?
(a) Amelia.
(b) Martirio.
(c) Angustias.
(d) Adela.

13. What does Amelia says is the worst possible thing that can happen?
(a) Be poor.
(b) Not have children.
(c) Never marry.
(d) Be born a woman.

14. Who does Adela warn Bernarda to not listen to because she is lying in Act 2, Part 3?
(a) Angustias.
(b) Poncia.
(c) Martirio.
(d) Magdalena.

15. In whose room is Pepe's picture found?
(a) Martirio's.
(b) Magdalena's
(c) Adela's.
(d) Amelia's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adela say she wants to do regarding the things she finds beautiful in Act 3, Part 1?

2. Who does Angustias accuse of stealing her picture of Pepe?

3. What do the Servant and Poncia say Bernarda is being as they clean up in Act 3, Part 2?

4. What does Poncia warn Bernarda that she can't keep her eye on in Act 3, Part 2?

5. How many days do we learn that Pepe's family will be coming for Angustias in Act 3, Part 1?

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