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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. For what was Riego executed?

2. Where is Leocadia in Goya's painting?

3. Goya tells Dr. Arrieta that Leocadia wants to go to France for what reason?

4. What royal decree frightens Leocadia?

5. What is unusual about the dialogue in quotation marks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Goya explain to Dr. Arrieta that the black paintings on his walls represent?

2. Why does Goya say he would have to disobey King Ferdinand to pay homage to him?

3. What do you make of the fact that while Goya is being tormented in his dream, the dream figures tell him that the King is embroidering flowers?

4. How does Father Duaso feel about King Ferdinand's decision to force Goya to become submissive to the King?

5. What contrast exists between the physical description of King Ferdinand and his activities and speech?

6. Does Goya know that the meowing he hears is an auditory hallucination?

7. The imaginary figures that torment Goya say they do so in the name of the priest from Tamajon. Who is the priest from Tamajon?

8. How does Dr. Arrieta offend Father Duaso?

9. What convinces King Ferdinand of Father Duaso's friendship for Goya?

10. Why did Goya turn back from his walk when he encountered the soldiers at the bridge?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Goya places great faith in the Bird-Men, people he believes to have conquered flight and to live in a more harmonious, advanced civilization. In an essay, explain what Goya wants them to do, who he thinks they are, and where he believes they come from. If they symbolize something, what is it? Support your ideas with quotations from Goya's speeches about them.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the play, Goya arrives at more than one startling conclusion about himself and his fellow man. Write an essay explaining what those conclusions are, and what prompted Goya to realize them.

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