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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Angela's face during the wedding party?
(a) She now has the look of a trapped animal.
(b) She now has the face of a married woman.
(c) She looks offended by the excess.
(d) She is extremely frightened.

2. At the end of the chapter, Santiago is compared to:
(a) A butterfly with no will of its own.
(b) A well-aimed dart.
(c) A name among the shadows.
(d) A dead man.

3. Another contrast of values apparent in the chapter is:
(a) The whores dying their party clothes to mourning colors.
(b) Colonel Aponte becoming a vegetarian.
(c) The narrator digging up old information about the murder.
(d) The hasty funeral caused by the decomposing body.

4. The narrator describes San Roman as:
(a) Confident and enthusiastic.
(b) Tense and sad.
(c) Jubilant and handsome.
(d) Mysterious and evil.

5. Poncio and Pedro Vicario are:
(a) Carpenters.
(b) Priests.
(c) Butchers.
(d) Soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Poncio Vicario's death is attributed to his "moral pain," which suggests:

2. The narrator's recounting of Colonel Lazaro Aponte's mundane morning details reveals:

3. The Vicario twins' behavior suggests:

4. Pedro Vicario's guilt manifests itself in what way?

5. The motif of blindness in the chapter suggests:

(see the answer key)

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