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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator does not believe Santiago had a guilty conscience that night because:
(a) His manner was carefree and celbratory.
(b) He refused to go to the widower Xius's house.
(c) He challenged anyone who did not believe him to a fight.
(d) He continued to court Angela Vicario.

2. Santiago Nasar's tendency to disguise the girls' identities might suggest that:
(a) He wants to make Maria Alejandrina Cervantes jealous.
(b) He wants women to forget themselves or their inhibitions in bed.
(c) He wants to confuse the girls so no one remembers him.
(d) He tries to create confusion for others to disguise his own actions.

3. Santiago felt completely covered in bird droppings when he woke. What might that suggest?
(a) A negative outcome for his day.
(b) A fear of birds.
(c) A need to move to another town.
(d) Good luck.

4. Why does Father Carmen Amador perform Santiago's autopsy?
(a) Santiago's mother insists that only a priest may touch her son's body.
(b) The town's doctor is gone at present, and no one else was qualified and willing.
(c) Santiago's mother does not trust the town doctor or Christo Bedoya, the medical student.
(d) The town's doctor is still drunk from the wedding festivities.

5. Angela's father sits amidst the confusion of the wedding helpless and blind, which suggests:
(a) He is losing his mind.
(b) He refuses to see Angela as a grown woman.
(c) He opposes his daughter's marriage.
(d) He is unprepared and powerless in these events.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bayardo's suitcase full of unopened letters suggests:

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

3. What is ironic about Placida Linero's comment that all dreams about birds mean good health?

4. Ironically, the priest had to use what implements to perform the autopsy?

5. Santiago looks as if he will enter his home by the kitchen door but suddenly:

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