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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound frightens King Ferdinand?
(a) A scream.
(b) The wind.
(c) A beating heart.
(d) A knock at the door.

2. What has Goya done with his estate?
(a) Willed it to his grandson, Marianito.
(b) Willed it to Leocadia.
(c) Willed it to his family in equal shares.
(d) Willed it to his daughter, Mariquita.

3. Where is Leocadia in Goya's painting?
(a) In a kitchen.
(b) In a cemetery.
(c) In a church.
(d) In a bedroom.

4. Who is Martin Zapater?
(a) Goya's neighbor.
(b) Goya's critic.
(c) Goya's childhood friend.
(d) Goya's brother-in-law.

5. How has King Ferdinand dealt with liberal dissenters?
(a) Summary executions and banishments.
(b) Interminable court cases.
(c) Reorientation therapies.
(d) Prolonged imprisonment.

6. How has Goya offended Calomarde?
(a) He portrayed Calomarde as ugly and vicious.
(b) He disclosed Calomarde's secrets.
(c) He refused to paint his portrait.
(d) He painted Calomarde's wives.

7. What advancement has Father Duaso recently received?
(a) He's been made archbishop.
(b) He's been made chaplain to King Ferdinand.
(c) He's been made abbott.
(d) He's been made a cardinal.

8. How does King Ferdinand characterize Goya to Calomarde?
(a) Goya is a secretive and untrustworthy man.
(b) Goya is a vain and foolish man.
(c) Goya is a proud and stubborn man.
(d) Goya is an unskilled and arrogant man.

9. Who is Vicente Lopez?
(a) Goya's neighbor.
(b) A courtier.
(c) A Royal Volunteer.
(d) King Ferdinand's portraitist.

10. What does Goya say Leocadia is?
(a) His true friend and support.
(b) A witch who is drying up his blood.
(c) The great love of his life.
(d) The only comfort of his old age.

11. What is the Green Book?
(a) A list of liberals.
(b) A list of Masons.
(c) King Ferdinand's record of personal wrongs he suffered.
(d) King Ferdinand's list of dissenters.

12. What does Goya accuse Leocadia of doing at the bridge?
(a) Fighting with Gumersinda.
(b) Conspiring with the King's volunteers.
(c) Eavesdropping.
(d) Flirting with a soldier.

13. What was the effect of the Constitution of 1812?
(a) Creating a parliament.
(b) Exiling the dissenters.
(c) Curtailing the King's power.
(d) Expanding the King's power.

14. How old is Leocadia's daughter Mariquita?
(a) Nine.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eight.
(d) Eleven.

15. What sound does it seem to Goya that Gumersinda makes when she talks?
(a) A donkey's bray.
(b) A cat's meow.
(c) A hen's cackling.
(d) A bat's screech.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leocadia want Dr. Arrieta to do?

2. Why does Leocadia call Goya insane?

3. What is Father Duaso in charge of?

4. Why was Goya denounced to the Holy Inquisition?

5. Why is Goya depressed by Gumersinda's visit?

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