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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 has come to force her to confess.
(c) Bayardo may not feel enough love for her to forgive her aging.
(d) Her mother will come and frighten him away.

2. Pablo Vicario goes on to:
(a) Become a metalsmith and marries his fiance.
(b) Become a metalsmith and dies in his fathers shop.
(c) Marry his fiance and dies shortly thereafter.
(d) Enlist in the army and disappears in the jungle.

3. The mayor's asks the priest to perform the autopsy instead of a medically trained person because:
(a) He is too inexperienced to know how to perform the autopsy himself.
(b) He feels guilty for having failed to warn Santiago.
(c) He is too proud to admit he does not know how to proceed with the examination.
(d) He is trying to get his revenge on Santiago's family.

4. The fact that the narrator does not remember rain on the day of the murder suggests:
(a) That he himself understands the matter on some level.
(b) That he is too traumatized to remember.
(c) That he was hiding out at the whorehouse.
(d) That he wanted Santiago Nasar to die.

5. Pedro Vicario's guilt manifests itself in what way?
(a) He was awake for eleven months after the murder.
(b) He refuses to eat for eleven months after the murder.
(c) He refuses to marry his fiance.
(d) He cannot control his bladder.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator believes Angela Vicario has always exhibited:

2. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes never goes to bed with anyone else in Santiago's presence because:

3. Most of the concerns that keep people from acting on Santiago Nasar's behalf could be described as:

4. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes refuses to believe that the twins came to her place looking for Santiago because:

5. The townspeople refer to Bayardo San Roman as "poor Bayardo" because:

(see the answer key)

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