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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can't Santiago stand starch in his clothes?
(a) He thinks starch is for girls.
(b) It makes his clothes look dirty.
(c) He doesn't want to look stiff.
(d) His skin is too sensitive for it.

2. The narrator describes San Roman as:
(a) Jubilant and handsome.
(b) Confident and enthusiastic.
(c) Tense and sad.
(d) Mysterious and evil.

3. When the others in the meat market complain of hangovers or of missing the cake at the wedding, how do the twins reply?
(a) We're going to kill Santiago Nasar.
(b) We just came to sharpen our knives.
(c) Everybody knows that, you dope.
(d) When you sacrifice a steer, you don't look into its eyes.

4. Bayardo San Roman is described as:
(a) Around thirty years old, with tan skin and golden eyes.
(b) Around twenty-one, with his own fortune, and a good name.
(c) Around forty, with silver hair and pale skin.
(d) Around twenty-five, with one failed marriage, and snobby parents.

5. Luisa Santiaga assumes that the noise in the streets is caused by:
(a) The roosters crowing at the dock.
(b) The wedding party starting up again.
(c) The bishop's arrival.
(d) Santiago's murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Officer Leandro Pornoy, who visited with the twins at Clothilde Armenta's:

2. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes handles her grief by:

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

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

5. The priest describes the autopsy as:

(see the answer key)

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