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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Angela's appearance when she arrives at home suggests:
(a) She refused to leave the wedding party.
(b) She behaved badly and was punished.
(c) She tried to escape him and he caught her.
(d) She physically fought with Bayardo San Roman, or he beat her.

2. The Arab community in the novel is described as:
(a) Hard-working, clannish, and peaceful.
(b) Lazy, stubborn, and combustive.
(c) Lazy, clannish, and peaceful.
(d) Hard-working, vengeful, and divisive.

3. The narrator learns that the Vicario twins:
(a) Tried to find someone to stop them from the killing.
(b) Hid out until the murder so they could not be stopped.
(c) Turned themselves in only after they were surrounded.
(d) Acted on behalf of their mother's wishes.

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

5. What events foreshadow an unusual evening for the wedding guests?
(a) The narrator's father plays violin, and his sister, the nun, dances.
(b) The narrator's mother does not forsee Santiago's murder.
(c) The bishop's boat comes through town.
(d) The narrator and his friends argue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pura Vicario believes her daughters will make excellent wives because:

2. Pura Vicario knows bad news is coming because of what?

3. The Vicario family:

4. The narrator suspects that the San Roman family's excessive show of grief:

5. The narrator describes San Roman as:

(see the answer key)

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