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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the doctor doubt that Sierva has rabies?
(a) The bite was superficial.
(b) The dog did not have rabies.
(c) People of her racial background tend to be immune to rabies.
(d) She was bitten by another animal, not the rabid dog.

2. What is striking about Sierva's dream as she relates it to Cayetano?
(a) He had the same dream before meeting her.
(b) The Bishop had the exact same dream a few nights earlier.
(c) He wrote a story that sounds a lot like her dream.
(d) He was featured in the dream as Sierva's lover.

3. What does Ygnacio's father forbid?
(a) He forbids Ygnacio from dancing and singing.
(b) He forbids Ygnacio to marry Dulce Olivia.
(c) He forbids Olivia from eating.
(d) He forbids going to church.

4. Who blesses the marriage of Bernarda and Ygnacio?
(a) The Abbess.
(b) Sagunta.
(c) The Bishop.
(d) Dominga.

5. What realization does Bernarda make in chapter four?
(a) Sierva is gone.
(b) She loves her daughter.
(c) She has abused Sierva.
(d) She is dying soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What date does Dr. Abrenuncio give for Bernarda's death?

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

3. What is happening to the crypts at Santa Clara at the beginning of the novel?

4. What have the drugs done to Bernarda Cabrera?

5. What does the Abbess list off as signs of Sierva's demonic powers to Cayetano?

(see the answer key)

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