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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bernarda bring back the Marquis's wealth?
(a) Selling slaves.
(b) Trading and fraud.
(c) Prostitution.
(d) Smart business tactics.

2. What are Bernarda Cabrera's two drugs of choice?
(a) Opiates and fermented barley.
(b) Cocaine and rum.
(c) Fermented honey and raw cacao.
(d) Fermented grapes and marijuana.

3. What is happening to the crypts at Santa Clara at the beginning of the novel?
(a) They have been destroyed by an earthquake.
(b) They are being emptied.
(c) They have been flooded.
(d) They have been turned into a tourist attraction.

4. How did Judas and Bernarda meet?
(a) He is sent to entrap her in marriage.
(b) He buys her a drink.
(c) She accidentally runs her horse into his.
(d) She buys him.

5. At the end of chapter two, what does the narrator state will happen to Sierva?
(a) Sierva will run away from New Grenada.
(b) Sierva will die attempting to run away.
(c) Sierva will never leave the convent alive.
(d) Sierva will spend five years in the convent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Bishop tell the Marquis about his daughter?

3. Where does Bernarda go after Judas's death?

4. Who blesses the marriage of Bernarda and Ygnacio?

5. What terrified Ygnacio on his father's estate?

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