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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The priest laments that a brilliant future was cut short for Santiago because:
(a) His heart was enlarged in his chest.
(b) He had so many admirers.
(c) His brain was left untouched by the autopsy.
(d) His brain was larger than the average Englishman's.

2. The serenade that took place at the widower Xius's house was intended to:
(a) Show Bayardo San Roman who wronged his wife.
(b) Rouse the newlyweds so the party could continue at their house.
(c) Make sure Bayardo had not drunk himself to death.
(d) Wake the newlyweds on their wedding night.

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

4. The narrator's dream about the voracious child, on the heels of his thought on Santiago's horrific death, might suggest:
(a) The narrator feels Santiago deserved his death.
(b) The demands of the community were extreme and had consequences.
(c) Maria Alejandrina's eating had awoken him.
(d) The appetites of the town's women led to disaster.

5. Why does Father Carmen Amador perform Santiago's autopsy?
(a) Santiago's mother does not trust the town doctor or Christo Bedoya, the medical student.
(b) Santiago's mother insists that only a priest may touch her son's body.
(c) The town's doctor is gone at present, and no one else was qualified and willing.
(d) The town's doctor is still drunk from the wedding festivities.

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

7. The repeated mention of Victoria Guzman watching over the coffee pot and gutting animals connotes which popular image?
(a) A fortune teller.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A witch.
(d) A veterinarian.

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

9. 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.

10. Clearly the Vicario brothers:
(a) Know what they have done is against the law, but feel justified.
(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) Disregard the law whenever it suits them.

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

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

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

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

15. The court that tries the Vicario twins decides:
(a) They are mentally unfit to stand trial.
(b) They acted honorably in defense of their sister.
(c) They will both be hanged.
(d) They will be punished in the afterlife.

Short Answer Questions

1. The mayor's asks the priest to perform the autopsy instead of a medically trained person because:

2. The priest describes the autopsy as:

3. The repeated foretelling of Santiago Nasar's death suggests:

4. The juxtaposition of Santiago's massacred body and his elaborate coffin suggests:

5. The Vicario family:

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