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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Angela Vicario's continued insistence that Santiago Nasar was her "perpetrator" implies:
(a) She cannot remember be the details of the incident.
(b) She feels it indecent to reveal the details.
(c) She regrets his murder.
(d) She has no further information or proof of her accusations.

3. Bayardo San Roman has "a way of speaking that...":
(a) ...Disguised what he had come to town for.
(b) ...Served to conceal rather than reveal.
(c) ...Conveyed urgency.
(d) ...Did not allow him to be known at first sight.

4. The Arab community in the novel is described as:
(a) Hard-working, vengeful, and divisive.
(b) Hard-working, clannish, and peaceful.
(c) Lazy, stubborn, and combustive.
(d) Lazy, clannish, and peaceful.

5. The narrator believes Angela Vicario has always exhibited:
(a) A boldness unbecoming to a lady.
(b) A desperation men found stifling.
(c) A weakness of spirit and an air of helplessness.
(d) A poverty of morals and a reckless nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Victoria Guzman calls Santiago Nasar "white man," because he is partly white, but this also might suggest:

2. Both twins cross themselves before committing the murder, which suggests:

3. After Santiago's death, Placida Linero consoles herself by looking over the balcony at what?

4. Colonel Lazaro Aponte:

5. The narrator's recounting of Colonel Lazaro Aponte's mundane morning details reveals:

(see the answer key)

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