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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the station of the person raising Sierva?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Slave,
(c) Marquis.
(d) Merchant.

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

4. What instrument does Ygnacio play for Sierva?
(a) The pan flute.
(b) The mandolin.
(c) The theorbo.
(d) The violin.

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

6. To whom does the skull found in the crypts belong?
(a) An old man.
(b) A young nun.
(c) A 36-year-old man.
(d) A 12-year-old girl.

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

8. How old is Sierva?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Twelve.

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

10. How does Bernarda know Ygnacio before they got married?
(a) She made dresses for his first wife.
(b) She held his business accounts.
(c) Ygnacio was her client.
(d) Her father was the overseer to Ygnacio's family.

11. What terrified Ygnacio on his father's estate?
(a) The stories of ghosts.
(b) The storms.
(c) The isolation.
(d) The farm animals.

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

13. What does Ygnacio refuse to do with his wife?
(a) Kiss her on the lips.
(b) Dance with her.
(c) Sleep with her.
(d) Read to her.

14. Who is the narrator of this novel?
(a) Cayetano.
(b) The Bishop.
(c) Sierva.
(d) The author.

15. How did the twelve-year-old girl from the legend die?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Rabies.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Don Ygnacio meet on his way back from visiting a man with rabies?

2. What does Ygnacio's father forbid?

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

4. What was Bernarda Cabrera's position before she and Ygnacio married?

5. Because of the doctor's visits, what is beginning to change in Sierva and Ygnacio's relationship?

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