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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bernarda go after Judas's death?
(a) France.
(b) Argentina.
(c) The Mahates sugar plantation.
(d) The Marquis's summer cottage in Colombia.

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

3. What animal stays behind while the others run off on the estate of Ygnacio's father?
(a) A sheep.
(b) A mastiff.
(c) A horse.
(d) A pig.

4. What African name does Sierva take on for herself?
(a) Maria Dominga.
(b) Mandinga du Martia.
(c) Maria Mandinga.
(d) Mary de la Santos.

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

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

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

8. What does the Marquis do for Sierva, despite what Dr. Abrenuncio tells him?
(a) He forces her to take communion.
(b) He ignores her symptoms.
(c) He takes her to several quacks to try to cure her.
(d) He takes her to the Bishop.

9. Who supervises Sierva at the end of chapter one?
(a) Caridad del Cobre.
(b) Dominga.
(c) Bernarda.
(d) Sagunta.

10. How does the Marquis learn to read and write?
(a) He watches from outside a classroom window while a teacher goes through the alphabet.
(b) He simply picked up a book and figured it out.
(c) He communicates with the mad woman next door.
(d) He reads the Bible.

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

12. What does the Bishop tell the Marquis about his daughter?
(a) She is not mad, but undisciplined.
(b) She is going to die.
(c) She is possessed by demons.
(d) She must be baptized.

13. How long ago did the twelve-year-old girl of the legend die?
(a) 400 years ago.
(b) 300 years ago.
(c) 200 years ago.
(d) 500 years ago.

14. What is the Bishop afflicted with?
(a) Kidney problems.
(b) Leprosy.
(c) Asthma.
(d) Cancer.

15. In what modern country is the next scene set?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Don Ygnacio's title?

2. What does Don Ygnacio admit to the doctor?

3. To whom does the skull found in the crypts belong?

4. Why is she going to the market?

5. How does Ygnacio's wife die?

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