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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 does the Marquis do for Sierva, despite what Dr. Abrenuncio tells him?
(a) He ignores her symptoms.
(b) He takes her to the Bishop.
(c) He takes her to several quacks to try to cure her.
(d) He forces her to take communion.

2. What does Don Ygnacio admit to the doctor?
(a) He does not like his wife.
(b) He is afraid of his daughter.
(c) He is afraid of horses.
(d) He does not understand his daughter.

3. How does Bernarda know Ygnacio before they got married?
(a) She held his business accounts.
(b) She made dresses for his first wife.
(c) Ygnacio was her client.
(d) Her father was the overseer to Ygnacio's family.

4. How does the Marquis learn to read and write?
(a) He watches from outside a classroom window while a teacher goes through the alphabet.
(b) He reads the Bible.
(c) He simply picked up a book and figured it out.
(d) He communicates with the mad woman next door.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Judas die?

2. How old is Sierva?

3. Who tells Ygnacio that Sierva is going mad?

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

5. What instrument does Ygnacio play for Sierva?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ygnacio as a youth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Sierva have a strong affinity for the African culture?

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

10. Describe Bernarda and Ygnacio's relationship with Sierva.

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