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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does King Ferdinand claim Goya has opposed?

2. How did Goya react to Father Duaso's offer to intercede for him?

3. What is Father Duaso's first excuse for Goya's refusal to come to the palace?

4. What rumor is circulating about Father Duaso?

5. Where does Mariquita's voice tell Goya buttons are given as presents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What forces - personal and political - caused Goya to paint the Black Paintings? Do you believe he was motivated more by the chaos in his own mind or the chaos in his country? Do you believe he intended the paintings to be seen by others or not? Support your thesis with evidence from the play.

Essay Topic 2

Goya experiences an epiphany at the end of the play, when he comes to believe that his own treatment of Leocadia is not unlike the king's treatment of Goya. In your essay, explore this idea. How are the two relationships similar? How are they different?

Essay Topic 3

A great work of literature needs to have elements of universality. If you are not a great painter who has lost his hearing or his political security, you are not like Goya in those ways. And yet Dr. Arrieta tells Goya that we are all deaf and deserving of pity. In your essay, explain what you think Dr. Arrieta meant, tell whether you agree with him, and explain why or why not.

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