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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator learns that the Vicario twins:
(a) Turned themselves in only after they were surrounded.
(b) Hid out until the murder so they could not be stopped.
(c) Tried to find someone to stop them from the killing.
(d) Acted on behalf of their mother's wishes.

2. The emotion Angela Vicario most clearly expresses when all is revealed is:
(a) Fear.
(b) Anger.
(c) Remorse.
(d) Relief.

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

4. What events foreshadow an unusual evening for the wedding guests?
(a) The narrator and his friends argue.
(b) The bishop's boat comes through town.
(c) The narrator's mother does not forsee Santiago's murder.
(d) The narrator's father plays violin, and his sister, the nun, dances.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A word that might describe how the twins feel in this situation is:

2. Why does Placida Linero believe that the bishop won't get off the boat?

3. The narrator is lured away from his friends by Maria Alejandrina Cervantes, who is described as:

4. The story begins as Santiago Nasar:

5. When the narrator warns Santiago that "A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain," he suggests:

(see the answer key)

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