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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Another event that adds to the mystery of Bayardo San Roman is that:
(a) He is nowhere to be found on his wedding day.
(b) He is cold and aloof toward Angela.
(c) He returns Angela to her home.
(d) He is two hours late for his own wedding.

2. 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) When you sacrifice a steer, you don't look into its eyes.
(d) Everybody knows that, you dope.

3. Santiago's house is made out of a former:
(a) Warehouse.
(b) Parlor.
(c) Farmhouse.
(d) Import store.

4. In the midst of all of Santiago's innards the priest found:
(a) Only one kidney.
(b) The liver damage that probably killed him.
(c) Multiple stab wounds, but none fatal.
(d) A gold medal he had swallowed at age four.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Divina Flor claims she did not warn Santiago about the murder plot against him because:

2. The fact that the bishop overlooks the town, the narrator's nun sister is too hung over to greet the boat, and Father Amador neglects to warn Santiago about the murder suggests:

3. What significant event happens for the narrator at the wedding?

4. The narrator describes Angela Vicario as "the creature of [Bayardo's] torment," which suggests:

5. Luisa Santiaga is torn in her loyalties because:

(see the answer key)

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