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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. How does Cayetano react to the Abbess's attempted hysteria when he first meets Sierva?
(a) He calms the nun down and makes her tea.
(b) He sympathizes with the Abbess and turns all of his attention to her.
(c) He tells the nun to calm down and leave.
(d) He encourages the nun.

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

3. About how many nuns reside in the convent?
(a) 50.
(b) 400.
(c) 15.
(d) 120.

4. How does Cayetano distract himself from his desire for Sierva at the end of chapter four?
(a) He reads the Bible.
(b) He whips himself.
(c) He reads the love poems.
(d) He hangs himself.

5. How does Sierva act around the nuns when people start claiming she is center of all evil in the convent?
(a) She protests her innocence.
(b) She prays at all hours in hopes that everyone notices her piety.
(c) She pretends to speak in demonic voices.
(d) She pretends that the demons are forcing her to hurt herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What request does the Abbess make to the Bishop in regards to Sierva?

2. In chapter four, what does Bernarda choose to do?

3. What document does the Bishop use as evidence of Sierva's demonic possession?

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

5. In the Viceroy's painting, what is surrounding Sierva?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Chapter 4 end with Cayetano whipping himself?

2. How does Sierva react when she is first introduced to the Abbess?

3. Describe Father Cayetano's character.

4. How does the Abbess treat Sierva in Cayetano's presence?

5. How do Cayetano and Dr. Abrenuncio bond?

6. What evidence does the Bishop present that argue for Sierva being possessed?

7. Why does the Vicereine take an interest in Sierva's fate?

8. How is the Viceroy introduced to Sierva and why?

9. What happens to Cayetano during the eclipse?

10. Describe the convent.

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