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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ironically, the Vicario brothers were engaged in what activity when they were called home?
(a) They were drinking at Clotilde Armenta's
(b) They were sharpening their butchering knives.
(c) They were singing sad songs at the wedding.
(d) They were at a brothel with Santiago Nasar.

2. The dogs panting after Santiago's innards as his body lay in his mother's house might represent:
(a) The spilling of Santiago and Angela's secret.
(b) The savage attitudes of the townspeople toward honor and revenge.
(c) Santiago's consumption of women.
(d) The fate that Santiago deserves.

3. The magistrate's notes were written in red ink, which the narrator claims resembles blood, suggesting:
(a) The magistrate had betrayed Santiago in some way.
(b) Santiago's blood was used as ink for symbolic purposes.
(c) Santiago was a sacrifice for some other sin or wrongdoing.
(d) The magistrate was fully committed to the case.

4. The emotion Angela Vicario most clearly expresses when all is revealed is:
(a) Fear.
(b) Remorse.
(c) Relief.
(d) Anger.

5. People like San Roman because:
(a) He is honest and has a good heart.
(b) Has access to endless resources.
(c) He is swimming in gold.
(d) He is capable and religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. The excesses surrounding the wedding suggest:

2. The priest laments that a brilliant future was cut short for Santiago because:

3. When Christo Bedoya sees Placida Linero awake, the "spell" of her beauty is broken, which implies:

4. The fact that the bishop overlooks the town, the narrator's nun sister is too hung over to greet the boat, and Father Amador neglects to warn Santiago about the murder suggests:

5. The narrator reports that he found only 322 pages of the magistrate's 500 page report, which suggests:

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