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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Angela is frightened that:
(a) Bayardo will still be angry after seventeen years.
(b) Bayardo may not feel enough love for her to forgive her aging.
(c) Bayardo has come to force her to confess.
(d) Her mother will come and frighten him away.

2. Bayardo San Roman is described as:
(a) Around forty, with silver hair and pale skin.
(b) Around thirty years old, with tan skin and golden eyes.
(c) Around twenty-five, with one failed marriage, and snobby parents.
(d) Around twenty-one, with his own fortune, and a good name.

3. When the others in the meat market complain of hangovers or of missing the cake at the wedding, how do the twins reply?
(a) Everybody knows that, you dope.
(b) We just came to sharpen our knives.
(c) When you sacrifice a steer, you don't look into its eyes.
(d) We're going to kill Santiago Nasar.

4. The emotion Angela Vicario most clearly expresses when all is revealed is:
(a) Remorse.
(b) Fear.
(c) Relief.
(d) Anger.

5. The narrator's dream about the voracious child, on the heels of his thought on Santiago's horrific death, might suggest:
(a) The appetites of the town's women led to disaster.
(b) Maria Alejandrina's eating had awoken him.
(c) The narrator feels Santiago deserved his death.
(d) The demands of the community were extreme and had consequences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Clothilde Armenta correctly assumes that:

2. All of the Vicario children had been raised to:

3. The Vicario twins' behavior suggests:

4. Bayardo's talk about money and his show of excess at the wedding indicate that he appears to value:

5. Because Angela's unanswered letters make her feel like she is writing to no one:

(see the answer key)

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