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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Angela Vicario's brothers insist that she:
(a) Uphold the family honor.
(b) Reveal the name of her lover.
(c) Leave the household forever.
(d) Return to her husband and beg forgiveness.

2. The serenade that took place at the widower Xius's house was intended to:
(a) Wake the newlyweds on their wedding night.
(b) Show Bayardo San Roman who wronged his wife.
(c) Make sure Bayardo had not drunk himself to death.
(d) Rouse the newlyweds so the party could continue at their house.

3. The excesses surrounding the wedding suggest:
(a) A need for the family to impress others.
(b) A desire to hide unhappiness in material things.
(c) A disregard for others' safety.
(d) A desperate attempt to hide Angela's unhappiness.

4. Hortensia Brute, a character who had seen the murderers' bloody knives:
(a) Believes that honor is love.
(b) Eventually goes insane from the image and the knowledge of the murder.
(c) Runs naked in the streets to call others' attention to the crime.
(d) Leaves the town, completely shaken by the brutality of the murder.

5. The narrator's dream about the voracious child, on the heels of his thought on Santiago's horrific death, might suggest:
(a) Maria Alejandrina's eating had awoken him.
(b) The narrator feels Santiago deserved his death.
(c) The demands of the community were extreme and had consequences.
(d) The appetites of the town's women led to disaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luisa Santiaga assumes that the noise in the streets is caused by:

2. Bayardo's suitcase full of unopened letters suggests:

3. The fact that Christo Bedoya can not tell the twins apart implies:

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

5. Another contrast of values apparent in the chapter is:

(see the answer key)

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