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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The mayor's asks the priest to perform the autopsy instead of a medically trained person because:
(a) He is trying to get his revenge on Santiago's family.
(b) He is too proud to admit he does not know how to proceed with the examination.
(c) He feels guilty for having failed to warn Santiago.
(d) He is too inexperienced to know how to perform the autopsy himself.

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

4. 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 was too terrified to repeat it.
(d) He thought they were all asleep.

5. Officer Leandro Pornoy, who visited with the twins at Clothilde Armenta's:
(a) Gets gored by a bull before he can warn Santiago Nasar.
(b) Gets drunk with the twins because he does not believe they are serious.
(c) Takes away the twins knives and goes home.
(d) Goes to Colonel Aponte to reveal the murder plot.

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

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

8. The twins' actions seem to result from:
(a) A sense of duty, but not a sense of pride.
(b) A sense of compassion, but not a sense of duty.
(c) A sense of honor, but not bloodthirstiness.
(d) A senes of bloodthirstiness, but not a sense of pride.

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

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

11. 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 does not always support the people as it should.
(b) The church is not influential over the people.
(c) The church does not care about its followers.
(d) The church is a fun organization.

12. 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) Everybody knows that, you dope.
(c) When you sacrifice a steer, you don't look into its eyes.
(d) We're going to kill Santiago Nasar.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The purple blotch that appears on Santiago's face is described as:

2. The Vicario family:

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

4. The Arab community in the novel is described as:

5. Santiago Nasar insists on returning home for an hour so that:

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