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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What interrupts Santiago's breakfast?
(a) The bishop's steamboat whistle.
(b) A warning from Luisa Santiaga.
(c) The Vicario twins at the front door.
(d) The threats from Victoria Guzman.

3. Officer Leandro Pornoy, who visited with the twins at Clothilde Armenta's:
(a) Gets drunk with the twins because he does not believe they are serious.
(b) Gets gored by a bull before he can warn Santiago Nasar.
(c) Goes to Colonel Aponte to reveal the murder plot.
(d) Takes away the twins knives and goes home.

4. The narrator believes his mother should have known about the murder plot because:
(a) She always had news before anyone else in the house.
(b) She predicted Santiago's life would end tragically.
(c) She was close to Pedro and Pablo Vicario.
(d) She was a practicing mystic.

5. Santiago Nasar insists on returning home for an hour so that:
(a) He can have coffee with Victoria Guzman.
(b) He can avoid the Vicario twins.
(c) He can reassure his mother of his safety.
(d) He can sleep for an hour before the bishop arrived.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the day of his death, why was Santiago was unarmed?

2. Santiago's house is made out of a former:

3. The author differentiates between his sisters by calling them:

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

5. What noise does Divina Flor hear when Santiago leaves the house?

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