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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The repeated foretelling of Santiago Nasar's death suggests:
(a) That Santiago knew he would die that day.
(b) That it was everyone's plan to murder him.
(c) That it was his punishment for a misspent life.
(d) That it was fated or inevitable in such a town and culture.

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

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

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

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

7. The narrator suspects that the San Roman family's excessive show of grief:
(a) Is concealing another, greater shame.
(b) Is covering up their secret satisfaction over the failure of the marriage.
(c) Is meant to make the Vicario family feel guilty.
(d) Is meant to show the townspeople how humble they are.

8. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes refuses to believe that the twins came to her place looking for Santiago because:
(a) She does not remember the events of that evening clearly.
(b) She claims they never would have left.
(c) She did not allow the twins entrance to her place.
(d) She claims they were not allowed to visit her establishment.

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

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

11. Pablo, the younger twin, finally has to convince his brother to kill Santiago, perhaps because:
(a) Pedro is cowardly since his return from the military.
(b) Pedro is resistant to any kind of authority.
(c) Pedro has been to war and knows what it is to kill a man.
(d) Pedro has lost his sense of duty since returning from the military.

12. 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) Goes to Colonel Aponte to reveal the murder plot.
(c) Gets drunk with the twins because he does not believe they are serious.
(d) Takes away the twins knives and goes home.

13. 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're going to kill Santiago Nasar.
(b) When you sacrifice a steer, you don't look into its eyes.
(c) Everybody knows that, you dope.
(d) We just came to sharpen our knives.

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

15. 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 woman who profits from his love will only hurt him.
(b) That women will only lead to tragedy in the end.
(c) That a man who pursues a woman whose business is love, he is destined to be hurt.
(d) That women scorned will seek revenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Clothilde Armenta says "That day I realized just how alone we women are in the world," she implies:

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

3. Prudencia Cotes, Pablo Vicario's fiancee, makes it clear that she:

4. The serenade that took place at the widower Xius's house was intended to:

5. A word that might describe how the twins feel in this situation is:

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