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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What might Santiago's dreams of trees symbolize?
(a) The dreams seem to indicate a new love for Santiago.
(b) The dreams seem to indicate a fear of heights.
(c) The dreams seem to indicate feelings of guilt and inadequacy.
(d) The dreams seem to indicate delight over a secret.

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

3. Despite her fear of Santiago, what does Divina Flor do that might help him the morning of his death?
(a) She asks her mother to help him.
(b) She leaves the front door unlocked.
(c) She warns Placida Linero of the murder plot.
(d) She gives him the warning someone slipped beneath the door.

4. Why does Placida Linero believe that the bishop won't get off the boat?
(a) He knows about the murder plot.
(b) He is afraid of the Vicario brothers.
(c) He hates the town.
(d) He has other towns to visit.

5. To intimidate Santiago Nasar on the morning of his murder, what does Victoria Guzman do?
(a) Violently guts rabbits in front of him.
(b) Burns him with his coffee.
(c) Hires the Vicario twins to threaten him.
(d) Threatens to tell Santiago's mother what he has been up to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luisa Santiaga learn on her way to warn Placida Linero about the murder plot?

2. What is ironic about Placida Linero's comment that all dreams about birds mean good health?

3. What interrupts Santiago's breakfast?

4. The bishop's refusal to stop in the village suggests what?

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

(see the answer key)

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