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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Governor's dinner for the Viceroy, what is the entertainment?
(a) Sierva speaking in demonic voices.
(b) A nude Abyssinian woman.
(c) A nun playing the harp.
(d) Slaves singing.

2. In chapter three, what causes Sierva to become violently hysterical?
(a) The nuns try to clean her self-inflicted wounds.
(b) The Bishop attempts to perform an exorcism.
(c) The nuns try to steal her necklaces.
(d) The nuns try to cut her hair.

3. When the nuns steal Sierva's necklaces, what happens that forces the women to return the jewelry?
(a) One of the nuns breaks her neck on a low hanging candelabrum.
(b) Sierva grows sick.
(c) One of the nuns falls down the steps while running away.
(d) The Abbess catches them and forces the nuns to apologize.

4. When she first meets the Abbess, how does Sierva behave?
(a) She screams blasphemous phrases.
(b) She is very respectful to the Abbess.
(c) She acts violently and refuses to speak.
(d) She faints.

5. At the very end of chapter three, what sort of complaint does Cayetano lodge on Sierva's behalf?
(a) Bad food.
(b) Cruel punishments from the Abbess.
(c) Uncomfortable lodgings.
(d) Unsanitary washing conditions.

6. Who finds Cayetano in a sorry state at the end of chapter four?
(a) The Marquis.
(b) The Bishop.
(c) Sierva.
(d) Dr. Abrenuncio.

7. How does the Abbess feel about the South American aristocrats?
(a) She mocks them.
(b) She respects them.
(c) She finds them to heretical.
(d) She believes they are trying to do good but failing.

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

9. What is the rank of the nuns who abandon Sierva when she first arrives at the convent?
(a) Prioresses.
(b) Abesses.
(c) Postulates.
(d) Novices.

10. What is the new Viceroy's name?
(a) Don Roberto du Bueno.
(b) Don Roberto de Buen Lozagos.
(c) Don Pedro de Buen Lozano.
(d) Don Rodrigo de Buen Lozano.

11. Where in the convent is Sierva initially kept?
(a) The jail.
(b) The slave quarters.
(c) The seamstress's office.
(d) The Abbess's room.

12. Who in the convent is separated completely from the outside world?
(a) The prisoners.
(b) The slaves.
(c) The novices.
(d) The nuns.

13. When the Abbess drags Sierva away from the slave quarters in chapter three, how does Sierva react?
(a) She defecates herself.
(b) She screams obscenities at all the passing nuns.
(c) She faints.
(d) She urinates on herself.

14. Who, upon her arrival, takes a special interest in Sierva?
(a) The Viceroy's mistress.
(b) The Marquis's third wife.
(c) The Vicereine.
(d) The Abbess's sister.

15. What does the Vicereine do in retaliation of the Governor's entertainment at the Viceroy's dinner?
(a) She slaps the Governor.
(b) She leaves her husband.
(c) She buys the Abyssinian woman and sets her free.
(d) She brings Sierva to dinner with the Abbess.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cayetano tell Sierva in chapter four to comfort her?

2. How does the Abbess feel about the Bishop?

3. How was food brought to the convent during the fighting between the Bishop and the Santa Clara convent in the earlier centuries?

4. How does Sierva act around the nuns when people start claiming she is center of all evil in the convent?

5. According to the Bishop's document, what is some information that points to Sierva's assured possession?

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