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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Clotilde Armenta allowed the twins to wait for Santiago in:
(a) Her milk shop.
(b) Her dress shop.
(c) Her tavern.
(d) Her home.

2. 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.

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

4. What noise does Divina Flor hear when Santiago leaves the house?
(a) The bishop blessing the town.
(b) A fight between the Vicario brothers.
(c) Roosters crowing.
(d) The wind in the almond trees.

5. The narrator describes Angela Vicario as "the creature of [Bayardo's] torment," which suggests:
(a) Rather than wanting her to be happy, Bayardo tries to keep her miserable.
(b) He is tormented by her inability to love him.
(c) He is having some revenge on the family.
(d) Rather than making her happy, the marriage makes her miserable.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes San Roman as:

2. All of the Vicario children had been raised to:

3. Santiago is joined at the pier by the narrator and which two others?

4. The narrator's sister Margot describes Santiago as:

5. Pura Vicario's silent beating of her daughter suggests:

(see the answer key)

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