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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How was food brought to the convent during the fighting between the Bishop and the Santa Clara convent in the earlier centuries?
(a) Bundles thrown from the trees.
(b) Courier pigeons.
(c) Bundles tied to arrows shot over the walls.
(d) A secret tunnel.

4. In chapter four, what does Bernarda choose to do?
(a) Force the Bishop to release her daughter.
(b) Abandons her drug use for her family.
(c) Abandon her family for drugs.
(d) Start an affair with Cayetano.

5. At the end of the chapter three, what is Cayetano reading in regards to Sierva?
(a) Books on African folklore.
(b) Love poems.
(c) Books on exorcism.
(d) The Bible.

6. How does Cayetano, in chapter three, win Sierva's trust?
(a) He brings the girl fresh fruit.
(b) He helps her bathe.
(c) He buys the girl fresh pastries.
(d) He brushes the girl's hair.

7. When Cayetano is sent to see Sierva in chapter four, how is she dressed?
(a) In boy's clothing.
(b) In rags.
(c) Fine clothes and jewels.
(d) As a nun.

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

9. How does Sierva defend her jewelry from the nuns?
(a) She punches the nuns.
(b) She spits at the nuns.
(c) She bites the nuns.
(d) She screams for help.

10. What natural event opens chapter four?
(a) Winter solstice.
(b) The sun's eclipse.
(c) A thunderstorm.
(d) A snowstorm.

11. How does the Abbess feel about the Bishop?
(a) She trusts him.
(b) She resents him.
(c) She is in love with him.
(d) She likes him but does not respect him.

12. When Cayetano first meets Sierva, how is the girl being restrained?
(a) Straitjacket.
(b) Sierva is tied to a cross.
(c) Sierva is chained to the wall.
(d) Sierva is tied down on a stone bed.

13. Although he is assigned as Sierva's exorcist, what is Cayetano's true desire for his career?
(a) Bishophood.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Musician.
(d) Librarian.

14. What does the Abbess list off as signs of Sierva's demonic powers to Cayetano?
(a) The behavior of the birds and plants.
(b) The smells from her cell.
(c) Her strange voices.
(d) Her odd-colored eyes.

15. What forbidden activity is used to celebrate the arrival of the Viceroy?
(a) Singing.
(b) Fire walking.
(c) Dances.
(d) Carnivale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Viceroy stay when he comes to New Grenada?

2. While writing love poems to Sierva, what memory seizes Cayetano?

3. Who, upon her arrival, takes a special interest in Sierva?

4. What does the Viceroy believe about Sierva?

5. What is the Abbess's name?

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