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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. Where does Gumersinda want to celebrate Christmas?

2. What did Goya think the flying men were when he first saw them?

3. What time is Father Duaso to attend King Ferdinand?

4. Where is Leocadia in Goya's painting?

5. Why does Leocadia call Goya insane?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Goya without anyone who can take him in?

2. Why does Goya hesitate to open Martin Zapater's letter?

3. What do the unnamed women's voices represent in Goya's mind?

4. How does King Ferdinand know that Goya opposes him?

5. How did King Ferdinand punish Goya?

6. What choice does Goya make between engaging with Leocadia and auto-erotic activity? How do you know?

7. Why does Leocadia take Goya's dementia personally?

8. Why do you think Father Duaso doesn't tell Dr. Arrieta that King Ferdinand has forbidden him to visit Goya until after 8:00?

9. What does Goya mean when he says, "For thirty years I've been witnessing a play I don't understand"?

10. Why does Goya call the horrifying scene of the Royal Volunteers attacking his home a "comedy?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In a brief essay, rewrite the entire story of the play as it would be told by Gumersinda. How would she feel about Leocadia? Goya? King Ferdinand? What would look to her to be the causes of the conflict? How different is the story when looked at from her point of view?

Essay Topic 2

Transformation is an important theme. Does anyone in this play change during the course of the action on stage? If so, who changes, and how?

Essay Topic 3

At different points in the play, several characters say, "Is that the way you repay me?" Who says this, to whom, and in what situations? What does this tell you about the way the speaker views himself or herself? Their relationship to other characters? In your essay, analyze this question.

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