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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The story begins as Santiago Nasar:
(a) Wakes up in the morning.
(b) Walks home from the wedding.
(c) Says goodbye to his mother for the last time.
(d) Dies in the street.

2. The narrator's sister Margot describes Santiago as:
(a) Enthusiastic, a man of great fortune, and impressive.
(b) Dreamy, distracted, and brooding.
(c) Happy, a man who had satisfaction, and flirtatious.
(d) Handsome, a man of his word, and with a fortune of his own.

3. Officer Leandro Pornoy, who visited with the twins at Clothilde Armenta's:
(a) Gets drunk with the twins because he does not believe they are serious.
(b) Goes to Colonel Aponte to reveal the murder plot.
(c) Takes away the twins knives and goes home.
(d) Gets gored by a bull before he can warn Santiago Nasar.

4. Pura Vicario knows bad news is coming because of what?
(a) Paleness of her daughter.
(b) Three slow knocks on the door.
(c) Devastation of the wedding party.
(d) Drunkards singing outside.

5. 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) When you sacrifice a steer, you don't look into its eyes.
(c) Everybody knows that, you dope.
(d) We're going to kill Santiago Nasar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Father Amador fails to warn Santiago or his mother of the murder plot because:

3. Clotilde Armenta allowed the twins to wait for Santiago in:

4. The motif of blindness in the chapter suggests:

5. Luis Enrique is unable to tell his family what he saw at the milk shop because:

(see the answer key)

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