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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What rabid animals attack the town?
(a) Cats.
(b) Birds.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Monkeys.

3. Who is raising Sierva?
(a) Ygnacio.
(b) Bernarda.
(c) Dominga de Adviento.
(d) The Bishop.

4. What is happening to the crypts at Santa Clara at the beginning of the novel?
(a) They have been turned into a tourist attraction.
(b) They have been destroyed by an earthquake.
(c) They have been flooded.
(d) They are being emptied.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Judas and Bernarda meet?

2. What bites Sierva in the marketplace?

3. What does Ygnacio refuse to do with his wife?

4. Who supervises Sierva at the end of chapter one?

5. What does Don Ygnacio admit to the doctor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What condition does the beginning of the book find Bernarda in and why?

2. What treatments does Sierva receive in her father's effort to cure her "madness?"

3. Why must the convent not cut Sierva's hair?

4. What is special about the tall slave girl brought into New Grenada from the ship?

5. Why does Olivia escape from the madhouse and what is the result?

6. Describe the character of the Bishop.

7. Describe Ygnacio as a youth.

8. Why does the Marquis give his daughter to the Holy Office?

9. Why does Sierva prefer to live in the slave quarters instead of the mansion?

10. Why does Ygnacio's father object to his son marrying Dulce Olivia?

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