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

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 challenged anyone who did not believe him to a fight.
(c) He refused to go to the widower Xius's house.
(d) He continued to court Angela Vicario.

2. Though the Vicario brothers defend their actions, they can not seem to get rid of:
(a) The smell of the drinking from the night before.
(b) Their need for revenge.
(c) Their anger at their sister's behavior.
(d) The smell of Santiago Nasar's blood on their clothes and bodies.

3. The fact that the bishop overlooks the town, the narrator's nun sister is too hung over to greet the boat, and Father Amador neglects to warn Santiago about the murder suggests:
(a) The church is a fun organization.
(b) The church is not influential over the people.
(c) The church does not always support the people as it should.
(d) The church does not care about its followers.

4. The narrator's dream about the voracious child, on the heels of his thought on Santiago's horrific death, might suggest:
(a) The appetites of the town's women led to disaster.
(b) The demands of the community were extreme and had consequences.
(c) Maria Alejandrina's eating had awoken him.
(d) The narrator feels Santiago deserved his death.

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

6. Colonel Lazaro Aponte:
(a) Forgets all about the murder plot.
(b) Talks to the twins and decides they are bluffing.
(c) Takes the twins' knives away.
(d) Is tired of breaking up fights, and lets the matter go.

7. The court that tries the Vicario twins decides:
(a) They are mentally unfit to stand trial.
(b) They acted honorably in defense of their sister.
(c) They will be punished in the afterlife.
(d) They will both be hanged.

8. Luis Enrique is unable to tell his family what he saw at the milk shop because:
(a) He passed out when he got home.
(b) He does not understand what he saw.
(c) He thought they were all asleep.
(d) He was too terrified to repeat it.

9. Angela is frightened that:
(a) Her mother will come and frighten him away.
(b) Bayardo may not feel enough love for her to forgive her aging.
(c) Bayardo will still be angry after seventeen years.
(d) Bayardo has come to force her to confess.

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

11. The Colonel treats the twins like:
(a) Naughty children.
(b) Worthless drunks.
(c) Hostile enemies.
(d) Worthy adversaries.

12. The narrator's recounting of Colonel Lazaro Aponte's mundane morning details reveals:
(a) The Colonel believes Santiago Nasar should die.
(b) The Colonel has not been warned about the murder plot either.
(c) The Colonel is far too distracted by the bishop's visit to warn Santiago Nasar.
(d) The Colonel is more interested in his own concerns than in warning Santiago Nasar.

13. Christo Bedoya declines to conduct the autopsy because:
(a) He is still angry at Santiago's behavior.
(b) He was such close friends with Santiago.
(c) He feels guilty for murdering Santiago.
(d) He hasn't taken the medical exam yet.

14. Though Bayardo has aged in many ways, Angela says she sees him:
(a) Just the same as he was on their wedding day.
(b) As she saw him the first time.
(c) As a happier man than she remembered.
(d) With a greater love than ever before.

15. The twins had to carry out the murder plot because they felt:
(a) Ashamed of their family.
(b) It was the only way to show their manliness.
(c) Outraged at Santiago's behavior.
(d) It was their duty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Father Amador fails to warn Santiago or his mother of the murder plot because:

2. One of the stab wounds in Santiago's hands is described as resembling the stigmata of Christ, which suggests:

3. Clothilde Armenta correctly assumes that:

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

5. The repeated mention of Victoria Guzman watching over the coffee pot and gutting animals connotes which popular image?

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