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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) The Mahates sugar plantation.
(c) Argentina.
(d) The Marquis's summer cottage in Colombia.

2. Where does Sierva spend all her time?
(a) The market.
(b) The church.
(c) Slave quarters.
(d) The sugarcane fields.

3. What do the fireworks remind Bernarda and Ygnacio about?
(a) Sierva's birthday.
(b) The death of Ygnacio's first wife.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Their wedding day.

4. What is strange about Dulce Olivia?
(a) She is mad and lives in the mental asylum next door.
(b) She is a noblewoman from Europe.
(c) She grew up in Africa.
(d) She was framed for murder.

5. Where does the next scene of chapter one take place?
(a) Barcelona.
(b) England.
(c) America.
(d) New Grenada.

6. How much is the beautiful slave bought for?
(a) Her weight in gold.
(b) Her weight in silver.
(c) Her weight in copper.
(d) Her weight in iron.

7. Who reminds Don Ygnacio about the animal biting Sierva?
(a) The Abbess.
(b) Bernarda.
(c) Dominga.
(d) Sagunta.

8. 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 spend five years in the convent.
(c) Sierva will die attempting to run away.
(d) Sierva will never leave the convent alive.

9. What does the doctor advise Don Ygnacio to do with his daughter?
(a) Send her away from New Grenada.
(b) He needs to be nice and treat her well.
(c) Leave her alone.
(d) He needs to take her to the Bishop for help.

10. How does Ygnacio's wife die?
(a) She is struck by lightning.
(b) She commits suicide.
(c) She is thrown from a horse.
(d) She drowns.

11. Why are the slaves waiting in the harbor?
(a) They are hiding.
(b) They are being sold.
(c) Quarantine.
(d) They are to be freed.

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

13. What was the occupation of the Marquis's father?
(a) Trader.
(b) Slave trader.
(c) Merchant.
(d) Doctor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is raising Sierva?

2. What African name does Sierva take on for herself?

3. Who is the narrator of this novel?

4. Who tells Ygnacio that Sierva is going mad?

5. What drug does Judas introduce to Bernarda?

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