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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bayardo's gift of the music box causes her parents concern about the nature of their daughter's relationship, which is an example of:
(a) Irony.
(b) Character foil.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Motif.

2. What noise does Divina Flor hear when Santiago leaves the house?
(a) Roosters crowing.
(b) A fight between the Vicario brothers.
(c) The wind in the almond trees.
(d) The bishop blessing the town.

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

4. Christo Bedoya declines to conduct the autopsy because:
(a) He was such close friends with Santiago.
(b) He is still angry at Santiago's behavior.
(c) He feels guilty for murdering Santiago.
(d) He hasn't taken the medical exam yet.

5. The author differentiates between his sisters by calling them:
(a) My favorite sister and My other sister.
(b) My sister Margot and My sister Ignacia.
(c) My sister the spinster and My sister the nun.
(d) My sister Margot and My sister the nun.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator's dream about the voracious child, on the heels of his thought on Santiago's horrific death, might suggest:

2. Margo insists that Santiago:

3. Luisa Santiaga assumes that the noise in the streets is caused by:

4. One of the stab wounds in Santiago's hands is described as resembling the stigmata of Christ, which suggests:

5. Bayardo's statement, "Well, here I am," suggests:

(see the answer key)

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