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

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Leocadia changed since the servants left?

2. In Part 2, Scene 3, who are Goya's friends?

3. In Part 2, how does King Ferdinand say Goya should feel?

4. Why can't Dr. Arrieta help Goya?

5. Why does Dr. Arrieta worry about intervening in Goya's life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Goya says that the walls where he painted the Black Paintings "ooze fear." He says that he painted the things he feared. Select one of the paintings to explain what Goya might have feared when he painted it. Be sure to include the personal and or political situation that might have created the fear he expressed.

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

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?

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