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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bernarda believe was the beginning of her downfall?
(a) Her marriage to the Marquis.
(b) Her affair with Judas.
(c) Her arrival in New Grenada.
(d) Giving birth to Sierva.

2. How does Judas die?
(a) Drug overdose.
(b) Beaten to death in a bar fight.
(c) Drowns.
(d) Murdered for his drugs.

3. Whom does Ygnacio marry when he returns to his father's house?
(a) Bernarda.
(b) Sagunta.
(c) Dulce Olivia.
(d) Dona Olalla de Mendoza.

4. Why is the animal that bit Sierva in the marketplace killed?
(a) It was nearly dead from starvation.
(b) It killed a cat.
(c) It has no owner.
(d) It has rabies.

5. Because of the doctor's visits, what is beginning to change in Sierva and Ygnacio's relationship?
(a) Sierva resents her father more.
(b) They begin to read together.
(c) Ygnacio stops communicating with his daughter.
(d) She is beginning to communicate with her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator of this novel?

2. How does the Marquis learn to read and write?

3. What does Don Ygnacio do for the man he meets on his way home from visiting the rabies patient?

4. Why is she going to the market?

5. Why does the doctor doubt that Sierva has rabies?

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