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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Most of the concerns that keep people from acting on Santiago Nasar's behalf could be described as:
(a) Self-indulgent.
(b) Unnecessary.
(c) Disrespectful.
(d) Extreme.

3. 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.

4. The Arab community in the novel is described as:
(a) Lazy, clannish, and peaceful.
(b) Hard-working, clannish, and peaceful.
(c) Lazy, stubborn, and combustive.
(d) Hard-working, vengeful, and divisive.

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

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

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

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 claims they were not allowed to visit her establishment.
(d) She did not allow the twins entrance to her place.

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

10. Father Amador fails to warn Santiago or his mother of the murder plot because:
(a) He is afraid of the Vicario twins' revenge if he should warn Santiago.
(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 distracted by the bishop's visit and forgets.

11. Though Bayardo has aged in many ways, Angela says she sees him:
(a) As a happier man than she remembered.
(b) With a greater love than ever before.
(c) As she saw him the first time.
(d) Just the same as he was on their wedding day.

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

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

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

15. Angela is frightened that:
(a) Bayardo will still be angry after seventeen years.
(b) Bayardo has come to force her to confess.
(c) Bayardo may not feel enough love for her to forgive her aging.
(d) Her mother will come and frighten him away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Father Carmen Amador perform Santiago's autopsy?

2. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes never goes to bed with anyone else in Santiago's presence because:

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

4. The author differentiates between his sisters by calling them:

5. Though the Vicario brothers defend their actions, they can not seem to get rid of:

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