More Resources

Isabel Allende, The Judge’s Wife

Isabel Allende, The Judge’s Wife

Read The Judge’s Wife and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Why does Nicolas Vidal predict that Casilda’s marriage will fail?

because Casilda has never been faithful to a man before

because the judge is twice Casilda’s age and does not know how to please a woman

because the judge already has a mistress

because Casilda is too ambitious to settle for being a judge’s wife

2. What prediction did the midwife make at Nicolas’s birth?

that he would lose his head over a woman

that he would be a judge

that he would die within a year

that he would be a great and powerful man

3. How does Judge Hildago plan to trap Nicolas?

by pretending to be Nicolas’s father

by capturing and torturing Nicolas’s mother

by courting Nicolas’s mistress

by luring him to town with jewels

4. What does Doña Casilda do to defy her husband?

She brings water to Juana the Forlorn.

She sends her children away.

She cheats on him.

She stops going to church.

5. How does Juana the Forlorn die?

She dies of thirst.

She hangs herself.

She is accidentally killed by her son.

Doña Casilda poisons her.