Of Love and Other Demons MCQs

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Of Love and Other Demons MCQs
Updated on: November 3, 2025
Estimated Reading Time: 17 min

Of Love And Other Demons MCQs

1. What animal initially entered the market, stirring events?

A. Ash-gray dog
B. Hungry vulture
C. Stray cat
D. Abyssinian slave

A. Ash-gray dog.
An ash-gray dog with a white blaze ran through the market, knocking down stalls and biting several people.

2. What was Sierva María doing when she was bitten?

A. Stealing candy
B. Buying bells
C. Looking for pets
D. Watching slaves

B. Buying bells.
Sierva María went to the market with a servant to buy a string of bells for her twelfth birthday celebration.

3. What did the Governor sell for the slave woman?

A. All his money
B. Her weight in gold
C. Discounted silver
D. Two hundred pounds

B. Her weight in gold.
The Governor paid the Abyssinian slave’s weight in gold because of her unsettling and sublime beauty.

4. How did the maid treat Sierva María’s bite initially?

A. Ignored the injury
B. Herbal bandage
C. Lemon and sulfur
D. Hot ashes

C. Lemon and sulfur.
The maid quickly treated the bite on the left ankle with a mixture of lemon and sulfur, keeping it quiet.
5. What substance did Bernarda Cabrera habitually abuse, leading to her decline?

A. Turpentine
B. Fermented honey
C. Cacao tablets
D. Opium and coca

B. Fermented honey.
Bernarda was “erased from the world” due to her severe abuse of fermented honey and cacao tablets.

6. How did Bernarda Cabrera physically change due to her vices?

A. Became very thin
B. Wits were sharpened
C. Bloated and coppery
D. Eyes were brighter

C. Bloated and coppery.
Her body became “bloated and coppery as a three-day-old corpse” and her eyes were extinguished.

7. What location did the Marquis typically use for his siesta?

A. Master bedroom
B. Slave shack
C. Orange grove hammock
D. Drawing room sofa

C. Orange grove hammock.
Don Ygnacio de Alfaro y Dueñas usually slept in his siesta hammock hung between two orange trees.

8. What did the Marquis blame for draining his blood while he slept?

A. Evil spirits
B. Large mosquitoes
C. Attack by slaves
D. Bats

D. Bats.
The Marquis was pale like a lily because bats drained his blood while he slept, causing his forlorn appearance.

9. What unique physical trait characterized Sierva María’s hair?

A. Never cut
B. Always short
C. Black and straight
D. Braided simply

A. Never cut.
Her hair was never cut due to a promise made by Dominga de Adviento until her wedding night.
10. Who was Dominga de Adviento, and what was her role?

A. The Governor’s wife
B. Sierva María’s nurse
C. A freed slave
D. The Abbess’s vicar

B. Sierva María’s nurse.
Dominga de Adviento, a formidable black woman, ruled the house and raised Sierva María.

11. What item did Sierva María wear to prevent her from being lost in the shadows?

A. A lantern
B. Santería necklace
C. Small cowbell
D. A brightly colored ribbon

C. Small cowbell.
Frightened by the girl’s stealthy nature, her mother hung a cowbell around Sierva María’s wrist.

12. What was the name of the woman who arrived warning the Marquis about rabies?

A. Caridad del Cobre
B. Dulce Olivia
C. Sagunta
D. Olalla de Mendoza

C. Sagunta.
An old, notorious Indian woman named Sagunta, known for healing secrets, warned the Marquis about the plague.

13. What celestial event did the Marquis initially say was required for a plague to occur?

A. Tidal wave
B. Comet or eclipse
C. Divine wrath
D. Sudden freeze

B. Comet or eclipse.
The Marquis stated he saw no reason for a plague as no comets or eclipses had been forecast.

14. What shocking discovery did Bernarda make about the dog that bit Sierva María?

A. It was rabid
B. It was stolen
C. It bit the Marquis
D. It was the Governor’s

A. It was rabid.
The maid saw the carcass of the ash-gray dog hanging from a tree to confirm it had died of rabies.
15. What horrifying event did the Marquis witness at the Amor de Dios Hospital?

A. A dying leper
B. A possessed child
C. A rabid man tied up
D. A doctor operating

C. A rabid man is tied up.
The Marquis found the mulàtto rabies victim tied to a pillar in the pavilion for raving lunatics.

16. How old was Don Ygnacio de Alfaro y Dueñas, the Marquis, when he lost his virginity?

A. Thirty-six years
B. Fifty-two years
C. Twenty years
D. Seventy years

B. Fifty-two years.
Bernarda mounted him, gagged him, and left him exhausted, depriving him of his virginity at age fifty-two.

17. What item did Bernarda’s father bring, leading to the Marquis’s marriage?

A. A harquebus
B. A deed
C. A whip
D. Gold coins

A. A harquebus.
Bernarda’s father brought an ancient harquebus, implying a challenge, forcing the Marquis to marry his pregnant daughter.

18. What was the fate of the Marquis’s first wife, Doña Olalla de Mendoza?

A. Died of fever
B. Struck by lightning
C. Died by Suìcide
D. Returned to Spain

B. Struck by lightning.
While playing a duet in the orchard, a sudden flash struck down Doña Olalla de Mendoza.

19. What material was Bernarda’s most profitable business, even more than slaves?

A. Coffee beans
B. Sugar cane
C. Flour
D. Gold

C. Flour.
Bernarda realized that the greatest profits in traffic lay not in slaves, but in illegally imported flour.
20. What happened to Bernarda’s lover, Judas Iscariot?

A. Imprisoned
B. Killed in a fight
C. Escaped to the jungle
D. Poisoned by Bernarda

B. Killed in fight.
Judas Iscariot was beaten to death with a chair during a card dispute with three galley slaves.

21. What was the name of the controversial physician the Marquis met on the hill?

A. Juan Méndez Nieto
B. Father Delaura
C. Abrenuncio de Sa
D. Rodrigo de Buen

C. Abrenuncio de Sa.
The Marquis met Licenciate Abrenuncio de Sa Pereira Cao, the most notable and controversial physician in the city.

22. What item did Abrenuncio sometimes use to sedate his patients?

A. Herbal smoke
B. A silver knife
C. The harp
D. Loud music

C. The harp.
Abrenuncio was known to play the harp at his patients’ bedsides to sedate them with certain music.

23. What does Abrenuncio believe is the only recourse for a patient after the initial outbreak of rabies?

A. Herbal treatments
B. Commending to God
C. None at all
D. Surgery immediately

C. None at all.
Abrenuncio states that after the initial outbreak, there is “none at all” to cure rabies.

24. What critical detail about Sierva María’s condition did Abrenuncio discern through subtle means?

A. Her hidden fever
B. Her love for dancing
C. Her knowledge of rabies
D. Her lack of pulse

C. Her knowledge of rabies.
Abrenuncio knew the girl knew the dog was rabid because her heart pounded like a “little caged frog”.
25. What unique odor did Abrenuncio detect in Sierva María’s perspiration?

A. Foul decay
B. Onion odor
C. Sulfur smell
D. Rosewater

B. Onion odor.
The doctor could not interpret the smell of onions in her perspiration, which was caused by slave remedies.

26. What was Abrenuncio’s final medical prescription for Sierva María, regardless of rabies?

A. Tie her up
B. Give her happiness
C. Begin exorcism
D. Keep her quiet

B. Give her happiness.
He advised the Marquis to fill the house with flowers, music, and things that would make her happy.

27. What treatment did the physicians attempt on Sierva María that nearly killed her?

A. Silver injections
B. Potions of antimony
C. Prayer and fasting
D. Leeches on her eyes

B. Potions of antimony.
She was brought to the brink of death through two weeks of fatal concoctions, including potions of natural antimony.

28. What was Abrenuncio’s cynical opinion of love?

A. Greatest healer
B. Natural emotion
C. Unhealthy dependence
D. Necessary sacrifice

C. Unhealthy dependence.
He said love was an emotion “contra natura” that condemned two strangers to base and unhealthy dependence.

29. What was Abrenuncio’s non-medical specialty, besides healing?

A. Horse breeding
B. Predicting deaths
C. Speaking Latin
D. Sailing ships

B. Predicting deaths.
His terrifying specialty was predicting the day and hour his patients would die.
30. What did Abrenuncio say he gave Cayetano to cure his solar blindness?

A. Holy water
B. Rainwater drops
C. A black patch
D. Medicinal herbs

B. Rainwater drops.
Abrenuncio admitted the supposed “eye wash” was merely drops of rainwater, the best cure for solar blindness.

31. Who was the Bishop of the diocese who summoned the Marquis?

A. Don Ygnacio
B. Don Toribio
C. Father Aquino
D. Cayetano Delaura

B. Don Toribio.
The Bishop of the diocese was Don Toribio de Cáceres y Virtudes, alarmed by the scandal.

32. What condition afflicted the Bishop, testing his faith?

A. Heart weakness
B. Malignant asthma
C. Severe gout
D. Leprosy

B. Malignant asthma.
The Bishop’s stentorian body was corroded by a malignant asthma that put his faith to the test.

33. What position did Father Cayetano Delaura hold, providing him access to the Bishop?

A. Exorcist
B. Librarian
C. Vicar General
D. Secretary

B. Librarian.
Delaura did not have a definite office but was known as the librarian of the Bishop’s impressive collection.

34. What was the name of the former nun condemned to life imprisonment?

A. Josefa Miranda
B. Martina Laborde
C. Dulce Olivia
D. Caridad del Cobre

B. Martina Laborde.
Martina Laborde was confined in the prison pavilion for murdering two of her companions with a carving knife.
35. What did the Abbess, Josefa Miranda, consider the Marquis’s aristocracy?

A. Holy blood
B. Gutter nobility
C. Shopkeeper class
D. African royalty

B. Gutter nobility.
The Abbess despised American-born aristocrats, whom she contemptuously referred to as “gutter nobility”.

36. What did Sierva María do when the novices tried to take her necklaces in the garden?

A. Screamed loudly
B. Bit a novice’s hand
C. Hid them quickly
D. Cried for help

B. Bit a novice’s hand.
When a novice tried to take her necklaces, Sierva María bit her on the hand with perfect, unhesitating aim.

37. What was Martina Laborde’s greatest obsession while confined?

A. Praying for pardon
B. Being free
C. Talking to demons
D. Sewing quickly

B. Being free.
Martina’s implacable obsession was to be free, even if she had to commit murder again.

38. What was the Bishops’ response when the Abbess complained about Delaura bringing food?

A. He ignored it
B. He rebuked Delaura
C. He agreed entirely
D. He promised a resolution

D. He promised resolution.
The Bishop stated he would resolve the memorandum of complaints with pastoral love when his health allowed.

39. What event immediately followed Sierva María’s first, violent exorcism session?

A. Bishop’s collapse
B. A large earthquake
C. Fire in the convent
D. Delaura’s arrival

A. Bishop’s collapse.
The Bishop fell forward, gasping like a fish, ending the ceremony in an uproar.
40. What was the mysterious fate of Father Tomás de Aquino de Narváez, the second exorcist?

A. Killed by slaves
B. Vanished completely
C. Found dead in a cistern
D. Died of fever

C. Found dead in a cistern.
The priest was found floating on his back in the courtyard’s concrete cistern, a mystery never solved.

41. What did Cayetano Delaura see when he observed the total eclipse without protection?

A. Absolute darkness
B. A warning sign
C. A perfect black disc
D. A medal of fire

D. A medal of fire.
When he stopped looking, the image of a “medal of fire” persisted on his retina.

42. What action did Delaura take to punish himself for his desires for Sierva María?

A. Fasting completely
B. Flagellating himself
C. Reciting poetry
D. Leaving the hospital

B. Flagellating himself.
Delaura used the iron scourge to flagellate himself until he was in a mire of blood and tears.

43. What did Delaura confess was the “most terrible” demon?

A. Pride
B. Envy
C. Sexual desire
D. Disbelief

C. Sexual desire.
Delaura declared the demon that caused his blood and tears was “the most terrible of all”.

44. Where was Cayetano Delaura ultimately sent as punishment for his sin?

A. To Spain
B. To a cloistered cell
C. To Amor de Dios Hospital
D. To San Basilio

C. To Amor de Dios Hospital.
The Bishop stripped Delaura of his dignities and sent him to the Amor de Dios Hospital to nurse lepers.
45. What did Delaura use as an internal pillow when he slept next to Sierva María?

A. A silk sheet
B. His own arm
C. A feather bag
D. Her hair

B. His own arm.
He slipped his arm beneath Sierva María’s head to serve as a pillow, and she curled up at his side.

46. What cruel challenge did Sierva María pose to Delaura to test his love?

A. Eating a cockroach
B. Slitting his throat
C. Cutting her hair
D. Walking the plank

A. Eating a cockroach.
Sierva María asked him to eat a cockroach, and he caught and ate it live to prove his love.

47. What did the nuns do immediately before Sierva María’s second major exorcism session?

A. Shaved her head
B. Gave her a bath
C. Tried diplomacy
D. Locked Martina away

A. Shaved her head.
A gardener nun cut off Sierva María’s hair with pruning shears and then a barber nun shaved her head.

48. Who had Sierva María dreamt of fleeing with to the fugitive slave settlement?

A. Martina Laborde
B. Dulce Olivia
C. Cayetano Delaura
D. Her father

C. Cayetano Delaura.
Sierva María told Cayetano she would like to take refuge with him in San Basilio de Palenque, the slave settlement.

49. How did Sierva María die according to the final passage?

A. Of starvation
B. Of her fever
C. Of love
D. Of rabies

C. Of love.
The warder found Sierva María dead of love in her bed, her eyes radiant and skin like a newborn’s.
50. What physical detail grew back instantly after Sierva María’s death?

A. Her teeth
B. Her fever
C. Her hair
D. Her nails

C. Her hair.
Strands of hair “gushed like bubbles” as they rapidly grew back on her shaved head after she died.

Brief Overview

Of Love and Other Demons is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. It was first published in 1994. The story is a work of Magic Realism based on a legend about a young noblewoman who died from rabies.

The novel centers on Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles, the only child of the Marquis de Casalduero. She is bitten in the market by a rabid ash-gray dog when she is nearly twelve years old. The dog later dies from rabies.

The Marquis, who loves Sierva María out of guilt and fear, seeks to protect her. He takes her to see Dr. Abrenuncio, who advises him to cure her with happiness, as no medicine will work otherwise. Her mother, Bernarda, an alcóholic, is indifferent to the threat.

Sierva María later exhibits strange behavior and becomes ill. The Bishop believes a demon possesses her. The Marquis, feeling guilty, confines her in the Convent of Santa Clara for an exorcism ritual. She is taken there on Palm Sunday.

Father Cayetano Delaura, a young priest, is assigned the case. He believes the girl is terrified, not possessed. He falls deeply in love with Sierva María. He visits her secretly at night, bringing her gifts and reciting poetry. They fall in love, but Cayetano remains chaste.

After the first exorcism fails, Cayetano is caught and punished for his love. Sierva María loses hope when he stops coming. She dies soon after, found dead of love in her bed. Strands of her distinctive hair are found to be still growing quickly after her death.

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