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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Another contrast of values apparent in the chapter is:
(a) The hasty funeral caused by the decomposing body.
(b) Colonel Aponte becoming a vegetarian.
(c) The narrator digging up old information about the murder.
(d) The whores dying their party clothes to mourning colors.

2. Pedro Vicario's guilt manifests itself in what way?
(a) He refuses to eat for eleven months after the murder.
(b) He was awake for eleven months after the murder.
(c) He cannot control his bladder.
(d) He refuses to marry his fiance.

3. The narrator is lured away from his friends by Maria Alejandrina Cervantes, who is described as:
(a) An insomniac falcon.
(b) An insomniac leopard.
(c) A warlike crane.
(d) A cat woman.

4. Because Angela's unanswered letters make her feel like she is writing to no one:
(a) She writes down all her secrets, including her love for Santiago.
(b) She is able to be honest and discovers all her feelings.
(c) She risks her reputation in sending them anyway.
(d) She stops writing them.

5. Victoria Guzman calls Santiago Nasar "white man," because he is partly white, but this also might suggest:
(a) His prejudice against the townspeople.
(b) Her fear of him as different than herself.
(c) His innocence.
(d) Her hatred of his wealth and priveledge.

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

7. The Vicario twins' behavior suggests:
(a) They are both extremely ill.
(b) They need psychiatric treatment.
(c) They are completely without regret.
(d) They feel an innate sense of guilt.

8. The brothers' plan to murder Santiago is strangely contradicted at Clothilde Armenta's house by:
(a) Their desire to shave and clean up.
(b) Their inability to eat or drink anything.
(c) Their disbelief in their sister's guilt.
(d) Their proclamations that they don't want to kill Santiago.

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

10. 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 anger at their sister's behavior.
(c) Their need for revenge.
(d) The smell of Santiago Nasar's blood on their clothes and bodies.

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

12. Clearly the Vicario brothers:
(a) Disregard the law whenever it suits them.
(b) Don't know if they have killed the right person.
(c) Know what they have done is against the law, but feel justified.
(d) Plan to escape punishment by claiming they acted in defense of honor.

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

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) With a greater love than ever before.
(c) As a happier man than she remembered.
(d) As she saw him the first time.

15. The priest describes the autopsy as:
(a) Having scarred him for life.
(b) Being the work of that barbarian the mayor.
(c) Being the work of savage dogs.
(d) Having killed Santiago all over again.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator learns that the Vicario twins:

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

3. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes handles her grief by:

4. Santiago Nasar's tendency to disguise the girls' identities might suggest that:

5. Faustino Santos, the twins' friend, reports their claim to:

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