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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Luisa Santiaga learn on her way to warn Placida Linero about the murder plot?
(a) She learns that Placida Linero is already dead.
(b) She learns that Santiago Nasar is already dead.
(c) She learns that Santiago is guilty of seducing Angela Vicario.
(d) She learns that Placida Linero has been dishonored.

2. The bishop's refusal to stop in the village suggests what?
(a) The town was not in need of help.
(b) No one in authority cared about the town or its inhabitants.
(c) The bishop knows of the murder plot.
(d) The bishop, and therefore God, has neglected the town.

3. All of the Vicario children had been raised to:
(a) Fill the traditional roles of men and women.
(b) Enter arranged marriages.
(c) Ignore earthly pleasures.
(d) Pursue the church above all else.

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

5. The engagement of Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman was shorter than the norm because:
(a) The bride's family was afraid the groom would learn the truth.
(b) The groom was extremely urgent about the wedding.
(c) The town wanted a big wedding.
(d) The groom was afraid the bride would change her mind.

6. The narrator's sister Margot describes Santiago as:
(a) Enthusiastic, a man of great fortune, and impressive.
(b) Handsome, a man of his word, and with a fortune of his own.
(c) Dreamy, distracted, and brooding.
(d) Happy, a man who had satisfaction, and flirtatious.

7. Bayardo San Roman returns his bride to her parents because:
(a) She does not love him.
(b) She has no inheritance.
(c) She is not a virgin.
(d) She confesses to love another.

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

9. What significant event happens for the narrator at the wedding?
(a) He proposes to Bayardo's sister.
(b) He overhears the brothers' plot to kill Santiago.
(c) He reveals Angela and Santiago's affair.
(d) He proposes to Mercedes Barcha.

10. People like San Roman because:
(a) He is swimming in gold.
(b) Has access to endless resources.
(c) He is capable and religious.
(d) He is honest and has a good heart.

11. Bayardo's talk about money and his show of excess at the wedding indicate that he appears to value:
(a) What money can buy him.
(b) What makes others happy.
(c) What cannot be purchased with money.
(d) What others have.

12. The story begins as Santiago Nasar:
(a) Dies in the street.
(b) Wakes up in the morning.
(c) Says goodbye to his mother for the last time.
(d) Walks home from the wedding.

13. Pura Vicario's silent beating of her daughter suggests:
(a) She doesn't want anyone else in the family to learn about Angela.
(b) She has no power of her own.
(c) She has conflicting duties as disciplinarian and protector of the family.
(d) She is so angry she has no words for Angela.

14. At the end of the chapter, Santiago is compared to:
(a) A butterfly with no will of its own.
(b) A dead man.
(c) A name among the shadows.
(d) A well-aimed dart.

15. Poncio and Pedro Vicario are:
(a) Butchers.
(b) Carpenters.
(c) Priests.
(d) Soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Angela Vicario's brothers insist that she:

2. Angela's feelings toward Bayardo San Roman might be described as:

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

4. Santiago's mood as he leaves his home for the last time is described as:

5. The narrator has a hard time believing Santiago was Angela's seducer because:

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