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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The white linen clothes Santiago wears on the day of his death make him look:
(a) Like a bride.
(b) Like a ghost.
(c) Like he is wearing pajamas.
(d) Like he never went to bed.

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

3. The Poncio twins lifting their sister by the waist and demanding an answer from her suggests what about her character?
(a) She is powerful, and they must subdue her.
(b) She is defiant and childlike.
(c) She is likely to escape if not guarded.
(d) She is helpless and has no will of her own.

4. What is ironic about Placida Linero's comment that all dreams about birds mean good health?
(a) Santiago is allergic to birds.
(b) This morning's dream foretold an illness for Santiago.
(c) Santiago has a headache on this particular morning.
(d) This morning's dream foretells Santiago's death.

5. Angela Vicario's brothers insist that she:
(a) Leave the household forever.
(b) Reveal the name of her lover.
(c) Uphold the family honor.
(d) Return to her husband and beg forgiveness.

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

7. Luisa Santiaga assumes that the noise in the streets is caused by:
(a) The bishop's arrival.
(b) Santiago's murder.
(c) The roosters crowing at the dock.
(d) The wedding party starting up again.

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

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

10. Despite her fear of Santiago, what does Divina Flor do that might help him the morning of his death?
(a) She leaves the front door unlocked.
(b) She warns Placida Linero of the murder plot.
(c) She asks her mother to help him.
(d) She gives him the warning someone slipped beneath the door.

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

12. The narrator describes Angela Vicario as "the creature of [Bayardo's] torment," which suggests:
(a) Rather than making her happy, the marriage makes her miserable.
(b) He is tormented by her inability to love him.
(c) Rather than wanting her to be happy, Bayardo tries to keep her miserable.
(d) He is having some revenge on the family.

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

14. Clotilde Armenta allowed the twins to wait for Santiago in:
(a) Her tavern.
(b) Her milk shop.
(c) Her dress shop.
(d) Her home.

15. To intimidate Santiago Nasar on the morning of his murder, what does Victoria Guzman do?
(a) Burns him with his coffee.
(b) Threatens to tell Santiago's mother what he has been up to.
(c) Hires the Vicario twins to threaten him.
(d) Violently guts rabbits in front of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. People like San Roman because:

2. The widower Xius' house and his possessions are symbolic of what?

3. The narrator believes Angela Vicario has always exhibited:

4. Luisa Santiaga is torn in her loyalties because:

5. How does the narrator describe Angela's face during the wedding party?

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