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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Poncia's comment regarding Bernarda's daughters when Bernarda comments on Angustias' flirting?
(a) That they want to have husbands.
(b) That they are the right age to be married.
(c) That they still have time to have children.
(d) That they are pretty.

2. What does Bernarda tell her daughters that she will do as long as she's alive in Act 1, Part 3?
(a) Run the house.
(b) Have her fun.
(c) Be married.
(d) Have children.

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

4. Complete the sentence by Martirio in the play, "It is truly strange that two people that don't know each other would suddenly see each other at a window and become ________".
(a) Happy.
(b) Intimate.
(c) Engaged.
(d) Loving.

5. What does Poncia say men find soon after becoming married?
(a) Better things to do.
(b) Another woman.
(c) Other interests.
(d) Hobbies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes out to get linen for the girls to start work on their hope chests?

2. During Bernarda's conversation with the mourners, what does she tell her daughters not to do?

3. 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."

4. What color is the dress Adela changes into out of her mourning clothes?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Poncia and a Servant doing at the beginning of the play?

2. How is Bernarda's mother described the first time she is seen in the play?

3. What does Bernarda say must happen right away when talking to Poncia at the beginning of Act 2, Part 3?

4. What does Bernarda do to make the Servant cry at the end of Act 1, Part 1?

5. What does Poncia warn Bernarda about keeping a constant watch on her daughters at the beginning of Act 3, Part 2?

6. What does Adela say about mourning in Act 1, Part 3?

7. Why does Bernarda tell Poncia that she didn't allow Martirio to marry the man who was courting her?

8. How does Bernarda's daughters react to her suggestion about what they should do during their eight years of mourning?

9. In what way does Bernarda tell Poncia to have the men leave and why in Act 1, Part 2?

10. How is Adela's appearance described when she returns from the corral in Act 3, Part 2?

(see the answer keys)

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