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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Angela's feelings toward Bayardo San Roman might be described as:
(a) Curious and excited.
(b) Contemptuous and resentful.
(c) Fearful and concerned.
(d) Bashful and withdrawn.

3. The Vicario family:
(a) Gives the mayor a bribe to help them escape the town.
(b) Guards the prisoners in prison with shotguns.
(c) Leaves the town, never to return.
(d) Leaves the town, plotting to return and help the brothers escape.

4. The dogs panting after Santiago's innards as his body lay in his mother's house might represent:
(a) Santiago's consumption of women.
(b) The spilling of Santiago and Angela's secret.
(c) The savage attitudes of the townspeople toward honor and revenge.
(d) The fate that Santiago deserves.

5. Bayardo San Roman has "a way of speaking that...":
(a) ...Served to conceal rather than reveal.
(b) ...Conveyed urgency.
(c) ...Disguised what he had come to town for.
(d) ...Did not allow him to be known at first sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. The mayor's asks the priest to perform the autopsy instead of a medically trained person because:

2. Ironically, the matriarch of the Arab community was responsible for:

3. Faustino Santos, the twins' friend, reports their claim to:

4. The white linen clothes Santiago wears on the day of his death make him look:

5. Bayardo San Roman's family could be described as:

(see the answer key)

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