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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator last sees Santiago Nasar walking along the river with:
(a) The Vicario Twins.
(b) Christo Bedoya.
(c) Angela Vicario.
(d) Maria Alejandrina Cervantes.

2. Prudencia Cotes, Pablo Vicario's fiancee, makes it clear that she:
(a) Will not wait for Pablo Vicario if he commits this crime.
(b) Believes the men acted necessarily in defense of honor.
(c) Expects Pablo Vicario to wait for her.
(d) Believes Angela Vicario is completely innocent.

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

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

5. The Vicario family:
(a) Leaves the town, plotting to return and help the brothers escape.
(b) Leaves the town, never to return.
(c) Gives the mayor a bribe to help them escape the town.
(d) Guards the prisoners in prison with shotguns.

6. The narrator does not believe Santiago had a guilty conscience that night because:
(a) He challenged anyone who did not believe him to a fight.
(b) He continued to court Angela Vicario.
(c) He refused to go to the widower Xius's house.
(d) His manner was carefree and celbratory.

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

8. The purple blotch that appears on Santiago's face is described as:
(a) A birthmark.
(b) The shadow of a guilty conscience.
(c) A mark of sin.
(d) The shadow of a cloud on water.

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. 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 risks her reputation in sending them anyway.
(c) She stops writing them.
(d) She is able to be honest and discovers all her feelings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Victoria Guzman calls Santiago Nasar "white man," because he is partly white, but this also might suggest:

2. 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:

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

4. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes handles her grief by:

5. The Colonel treats the twins like:

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