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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Father Amador fails to warn Santiago or his mother of the murder plot because:
(a) He is late for the bishop's visit and decides against visiting Santiago's house.
(b) He is afraid of the Vicario twins' revenge if he should warn Santiago.
(c) He is distracted by the bishop's visit and forgets.
(d) He does not really believe any harm will come to Santiago.

3. Faustino Santos, the twins' friend, reports their claim to:
(a) Don Rogelio de la Flor, Clothilde Armenta's husband.
(b) Victoria Guzman, the cook.
(c) Leandro Pornoy, a police officer.
(d) Poncio Vicario, the twins' father.

4. The twins were transferred to:
(a) The school auditorium.
(b) The mayor's house.
(c) Santiago Nasar's house.
(d) Their mother's house.

5. The juxtaposition of Santiago's massacred body and his elaborate coffin suggests:
(a) The futility of preserving youth.
(b) The hypocrisy of values among the townspeople.
(c) The superstition of the townspeople.
(d) The arrogance of the priest and doctor.

6. Bayardo's suitcase full of unopened letters suggests:
(a) That he is returning the letters because he does not want them.
(b) That he wants to pretend nothing has happened since the day they were married.
(c) That he is unwilling to forgive Angela no matter what she says.
(d) That he does not need to hear Angela's excuses; he has made mistakes as well.

7. The Nasar's house was crowded because:
(a) People had come to get in out of the heat.
(b) People had come to pay their respects to Placida Linero.
(c) People had come to view the body.
(d) People had come to help perform the autopsy.

8. Ironically, the priest had to use what implements to perform the autopsy?
(a) Garden tools.
(b) Kitchen utensils.
(c) Craftsmen's tools.
(d) Silverware.

9. Pablo Vicario goes on to:
(a) Become a metalsmith and dies in his fathers shop.
(b) Marry his fiance and dies shortly thereafter.
(c) Become a metalsmith and marries his fiance.
(d) Enlist in the army and disappears in the jungle.

10. The townspeople refer to Bayardo San Roman as "poor Bayardo" because:
(a) They believe he is the only true victim.
(b) He remains in the widower Xius house, never to be seen again.
(c) He was not really wealthy after all.
(d) He never marries again.

11. The dogs panting after Santiago's innards as his body lay in his mother's house might represent:
(a) Santiago's consumption of women.
(b) The spilling of Santiago and Angela's secret.
(c) The fate that Santiago deserves.
(d) The savage attitudes of the townspeople toward honor and revenge.

12. Divina Flor's weeping as she fends off the dogs suggests:
(a) She is afraid the narrator will blame her for Santiago's death.
(b) She knows the dogs will attack her next.
(c) She is guilty and overcome by Santiago's death.
(d) She knows her mother is responsible for Santiago's death.

13. The author differentiates between his sisters by calling them:
(a) My favorite sister and My other sister.
(b) My sister the spinster and My sister the nun.
(c) My sister Margot and My sister the nun.
(d) My sister Margot and My sister Ignacia.

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

15. Angela Vicario decides to write Bayardo San Roman after:
(a) She sees him pass by many years later.
(b) He refuses to speak to her in public.
(c) He writes her first.
(d) She finds out he still loves her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Christo Bedoya declines to conduct the autopsy because:

2. Though Bayardo has aged in many ways, Angela says she sees him:

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

4. Why does Father Carmen Amador perform Santiago's autopsy?

5. Pura Vicario dresses her daughter in red and wraps her face in a cloth, which suggests:

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