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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What significant event happens for the narrator at the wedding?
(a) He proposes to Mercedes Barcha.
(b) He proposes to Bayardo's sister.
(c) He reveals Angela and Santiago's affair.
(d) He overhears the brothers' plot to kill Santiago.

2. Santiago felt completely covered in bird droppings when he woke. What might that suggest?
(a) A fear of birds.
(b) A need to move to another town.
(c) Good luck.
(d) A negative outcome for his day.

3. Santiago is joined at the pier by the narrator and which two others?
(a) Poncio and Pedro Vicario.
(b) Pedro and Pablo Vicario.
(c) Carmen Amador and Cotilde Armenta.
(d) Margot and Christo Bedoya.

4. The weather on the day of Santiago's death is described by the townspeople as:
(a) Supernatural.
(b) Mournful.
(c) Holy.
(d) Funereal.

5. The widower Xius does not want to sell his house or the belongings inside of it because:
(a) It is all part of a vast collection he does not want to break up.
(b) He can not get enough money for his possessions.
(c) It all has sentimental value for him.
(d) He does not respect Bayardo San Roman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author call some of the events that led to Santiago's death?

2. Angela's appearance when she arrives at home suggests:

3. Bayardo San Roman has "a way of speaking that...":

4. Despite her fear of Santiago, what does Divina Flor do that might help him the morning of his death?

5. After Santiago's death, Placida Linero consoles herself by looking over the balcony at what?

(see the answer key)

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