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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Santiago Nasar's pure white linen suit suggests:
(a) Wealth.
(b) Burial wrappings.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Womanliness.

3. Colonel Lazaro Aponte:
(a) Takes the twins' knives away.
(b) Talks to the twins and decides they are bluffing.
(c) Forgets all about the murder plot.
(d) Is tired of breaking up fights, and lets the matter go.

4. The narrator's recounting of Colonel Lazaro Aponte's mundane morning details reveals:
(a) The Colonel is more interested in his own concerns than in warning Santiago Nasar.
(b) The Colonel has not been warned about the murder plot either.
(c) The Colonel is far too distracted by the bishop's visit to warn Santiago Nasar.
(d) The Colonel believes Santiago Nasar should die.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Santiago Nasar insists on returning home for an hour so that:

2. Angela Vicario's brothers insist that she:

3. Santiago felt completely covered in bird droppings when he woke. What might that suggest?

4. Ironically, the Vicario brothers were engaged in what activity when they were called home?

5. The repeated mention of Victoria Guzman watching over the coffee pot and gutting animals connotes which popular image?

(see the answer key)

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