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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is raising Sierva?

2. What is the Bishop afflicted with?

3. How does Bernarda feel about Sierva?

4. What is Don Ygnacio's title?

5. What does Don Ygnacio do for Sierva that she resents him for in chapter one?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the character of the Bishop.

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

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

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

5. Why does Sierva lie to Dr. Abrenuncio?

6. What happens to Sierva while in the marketplace?

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

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

9. Describe Ygnacio as a youth.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dr. Abrenuncio and Father Cayetano are the two most highly educated men in New Grenada. Citing specific examples from the text, discuss these two characters, including the following:

- Their differing backgrounds of science and faith.

- Their perceptions of each other, before and after they meet.

- Their concern over Sierva's fate.

- The possibilities of faith and science coming together, as exemplified by these two characters.

Essay Topic 2

Citing specific examples from the text, write an essay discussing one of the following:

- Compare and contrast Martina and Cayetano's fall from grace.

- The role of the Viceroy and Vicereine regarding Sierva's fate.

- Dr. Abrenuncio and his horse.

Essay Topic 3

What is significant about "The Four Books of Amadis of Gaul?" Why is this book banned by the church and confiscated from Cayetano in his youth? How does this relate to Dr. Abrenuncio and, especially, Father Cayetano? Do the classic literary connections "The Four Books of Amadis of Gaul" mirror any changes that happen to the doctor and the priest? Why or why not?

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