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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. Why do Bernarda and Ygnacio marry?
(a) Bernarda admits she loves him.
(b) Ygnacio will lose his inheritance if he does not marry.
(c) Bernarda purposefully becomes pregnant.
(d) They do not want to grow old alone.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Why does the doctor doubt that Sierva has rabies?
(a) The bite was superficial.
(b) She was bitten by another animal, not the rabid dog.
(c) The dog did not have rabies.
(d) People of her racial background tend to be immune to rabies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Don Ygnacio do for the man he meets on his way home from visiting the rabies patient?

2. What action takes place that has the Bishop stepping in to check on Sierva?

3. Where does Bernarda go after Judas's death?

4. Who is the narrator of this novel?

5. How much is the beautiful slave bought for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ygnacio as a youth.

2. How does Sierva's relationship with her father improve in Chapter 2?

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

4. How does the friendship between Ygnacio and Dr. Abrenuncio begin?

5. What is the connection between the skull found in the crypts of the convent and the author's memories of a legend?

6. How does Ygnacio's first wife deal with her husband?

7. What sort of man does Don Ygnacio appear to be in Chapter 1?

8. How does Bernarda force the Marquis into marriage?

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

10. Why does Sierva lie to Dr. Abrenuncio?

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