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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes handles her grief by:
(a) Barring her doors from the public.
(b) Excessive eating.
(c) Having all-night parties.
(d) Excessive drinking.

2. Santiago's autopsy has to be performed in a hurry because:
(a) The Nasars' dogs have begun to eat the body.
(b) The heat is extreme and the body is decomposing.
(c) Santiago's coffin is prepared and waiting for him.
(d) The townspeople want to desecrate the remains.

3. 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) With a greater love than ever before.
(d) As a happier man than she remembered.

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

5. Santiago Nasar's pure white linen suit suggests:
(a) Innocence.
(b) Burial wrappings.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Womanliness.

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

7. When the others in the meat market complain of hangovers or of missing the cake at the wedding, how do the twins reply?
(a) We just came to sharpen our knives.
(b) When you sacrifice a steer, you don't look into its eyes.
(c) Everybody knows that, you dope.
(d) We're going to kill Santiago Nasar.

8. 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 arrogance of the priest and doctor.
(d) The superstition of the townspeople.

9. A word that might describe how the twins feel in this situation is:
(a) Elated.
(b) Excited.
(c) Paralyzed.
(d) Trapped.

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

11. When the narrator warns Santiago that "A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain," he suggests:
(a) That a man who pursues a woman whose business is love, he is destined to be hurt.
(b) That women will only lead to tragedy in the end.
(c) That women scorned will seek revenge.
(d) That a woman who profits from his love will only hurt him.

12. Clothilde Armenta correctly assumes that:
(a) The twins have more knives hidden away to kill Santiago.
(b) Santiago Nasar is already aware of the twins' plot.
(c) Colonel Aponte has only made the twins more resourceful by his actions.
(d) The twins do not really want to kill Santiago, but are duty-bound.

13. In the midst of all of Santiago's innards the priest found:
(a) The liver damage that probably killed him.
(b) Only one kidney.
(c) A gold medal he had swallowed at age four.
(d) Multiple stab wounds, but none fatal.

14. The repeated mention of Victoria Guzman watching over the coffee pot and gutting animals connotes which popular image?
(a) A veterinarian.
(b) A witch.
(c) A fortune teller.
(d) A teacher.

15. The twins attribute their health problems to:
(a) Guilt over their crime.
(b) Attempted poisoning.
(c) The abysmal prison conditions.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Luis Enrique is unable to tell his family what he saw at the milk shop because:

2. The court that tries the Vicario twins decides:

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

4. The narrator suspects that the San Roman family's excessive show of grief:

5. The twins were transferred to:

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