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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Santiago Nasar insists on returning home for an hour so that:
(a) He can avoid the Vicario twins.
(b) He can have coffee with Victoria Guzman.
(c) He can sleep for an hour before the bishop arrived.
(d) He can reassure his mother of his safety.

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

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

4. 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 did not allow the twins entrance to her place.
(c) She claims they never would have left.
(d) She claims they were not allowed to visit her establishment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bayardo's suitcase full of unopened letters suggests:

2. The twins attribute their health problems to:

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

4. The dogs panting after Santiago's innards as his body lay in his mother's house might represent:

5. The narrator suspects that the San Roman family's excessive show of grief:

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