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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Santiago Nasar's pure white linen suit suggests:
(a) Womanliness.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Burial wrappings.

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

5. The twins' actions seem to result from:
(a) A sense of honor, but not bloodthirstiness.
(b) A sense of duty, but not a sense of pride.
(c) A sense of compassion, but not a sense of duty.
(d) A senes of bloodthirstiness, but not a sense of pride.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes refuses to believe that the twins came to her place looking for Santiago because:

2. The Nasar's house was crowded because:

3. The narrator learns that the Vicario twins:

4. The Arab community in the novel is described as:

5. When the others in the meat market complain of hangovers or of missing the cake at the wedding, how do the twins reply?

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