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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Angela's father sits amidst the confusion of the wedding helpless and blind, which suggests:
(a) He is losing his mind.
(b) He opposes his daughter's marriage.
(c) He refuses to see Angela as a grown woman.
(d) He is unprepared and powerless in these events.

2. Victoria Guzman distrusts Santiago because:
(a) She knows he will take advantage of her daughter, Divina Flor.
(b) She thinks he seduced Angela Vicario.
(c) She is afraid he will try to marry her daughter, Divina Flor.
(d) She knows he is not a good businessman.

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

4. After Santiago's death, Placida Linero consoles herself by looking over the balcony at what?
(a) The almond trees.
(b) Santiago's grave.
(c) The jailhouse.
(d) The town and the river.

5. What does the author call some of the events that led to Santiago's death?
(a) Fatal mistakes.
(b) Fatal coincidences.
(c) Painful ironies.
(d) Painful anomalies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prudencia Cotes, Pablo Vicario's fiancee, makes it clear that she:

2. Santiago Nasar's pure white linen suit suggests:

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

4. The narrator's recounting of Colonel Lazaro Aponte's mundane morning details reveals:

5. The twins had to carry out the murder plot because they felt:

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