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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Leocadia's second lie to Goya?
(a) Mariquita is asleep.
(b) Mariquita is visiting relatives.
(c) Mariquita has gone for a walk.
(d) Mariquita is in the other room.

2. What does the audience learn about Leocadia's husband from Gumersinda's remarks?
(a) He is patient and hopeful.
(b) He is infirm.
(c) He is younger than Goya.
(d) He is cruel and violent.

3. Hearing his shouts, what does Leocadia suggest must have happened to Goya?
(a) A bat must have frightened him.
(b) A dog must have bitten him.
(c) A cat must have scratched him.
(d) A scorpion must have bitten him.

4. How does Leocadia evaluate Goya's recent paintings?
(a) They're valuable.
(b) They're appealing.
(c) They're magnificent.
(d) They're appalling.

5. Where does Leocadia want to celebrate Christmas?
(a) In France.
(b) At Goya's house.
(c) At the Costa del Sol.
(d) At Gumersinda's house.

6. What artifact does Goya keep that is the same as King Ferdinand's?
(a) An apple.
(b) A spyglass.
(c) A sewing basket.
(d) A pistol.

7. Who else heard the noise that frightens King Ferdinand?
(a) The guards stationed at the door.
(b) Calomarde.
(c) Nobody.
(d) The guards in the courtyard.

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

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

10. What does Leocadia want Dr. Arrieta to do?
(a) Persuade Goya to admit wrongdoing.
(b) Persuade Goya to go to France.
(c) Persuade Goya to rest more.
(d) Persuade Goya to apologize to the king.

11. How does Gumersinda insult Leocadia?
(a) By refusing to invite her home.
(b) By referring to Goya as "your master."
(c) By mentioning her unkempt appearance.
(d) By refusing to take the tea she offers.

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

13. What royal decree frightens Leocadia?
(a) King Ferdinand has put out a reward for harming liberals.
(b) King Ferdinand has banished all liberals.
(c) King Ferdinand has sent the guard to seek liberals.
(d) King Ferdinand will pardon anyone harming liberals.

14. What did Goya think the flying men were when he first saw them?
(a) His imagination.
(b) Frenchmen in new machines.
(c) Demons.
(d) Angels.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Goya's children?

2. What is the picture on the wall during most of Part 1, Scene 2?

3. Where is Leocadia in Goya's painting?

4. What sound frightens King Ferdinand?

5. What sound does it seem to Goya that Gumersinda makes when she talks?

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