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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What might Santiago's dreams of trees symbolize?
(a) The dreams seem to indicate a fear of heights.
(b) The dreams seem to indicate delight over a secret.
(c) The dreams seem to indicate feelings of guilt and inadequacy.
(d) The dreams seem to indicate a new love for Santiago.

2. Victoria Guzman tries to convince Christo Bedoya:
(a) To lock the front door to keep the Vicario twins out.
(b) That the murder plot is only the talk of drunkards.
(c) That Santiago has already returned home.
(d) To take Santiago's gun along with him.

3. The narrator learns that the Vicario twins:
(a) Acted on behalf of their mother's wishes.
(b) Hid out until the murder so they could not be stopped.
(c) Tried to find someone to stop them from the killing.
(d) Turned themselves in only after they were surrounded.

4. The twins did not try to convince Angela to marry Bayardo San Roman because:
(a) They said it looked to them like women problems.
(b) They were not convinced the wedding would take place.
(c) They felt it was a matter of her honor.
(d) They thought women should be allowed to make up their own minds.

5. The fact that Christo Bedoya can not tell the twins apart implies:
(a) He was not paying attention.
(b) They are a product of a racist culture.
(c) Their individual identity is not as important as the crime they commit.
(d) They are so much alike that they can not have individual thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Nasar's house was crowded because:

3. Pablo Vicario goes on to:

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

5. Santiago Nasar insists on returning home for an hour so that:

(see the answer key)

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