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

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

3. What is strange about Dulce Olivia?
(a) She is mad and lives in the mental asylum next door.
(b) She is a noblewoman from Europe.
(c) She grew up in Africa.
(d) She was framed for murder.

4. What does the bishop say the Marquis must do to save Sierva?
(a) He must send Sierva to Italy.
(b) He must allow the Bishop to bless her.
(c) He must discipline his daughter.
(d) He must give her up to the Holy Office.

5. In what modern country is the next scene set?
(a) Portugal.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Judas die?

3. What date does Dr. Abrenuncio give for Bernarda's death?

4. What terrified Ygnacio on his father's estate?

5. To whom does the skull found in the crypts belong?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Dr. Abrenuncio believe about Sierva and her brush with rabies and what treatment does he recommend?

4. Describe Ygnacio as a youth.

5. How does Bernarda spend her time on the sugar plantation and in what condition does she return?

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

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

8. How is rabies treated by the citizens of New Grenada from the first chapter?

9. Why does Sierva lie to Dr. Abrenuncio?

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

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