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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The priest describes the autopsy as:

5. When the narrator warns Santiago that "A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain," he suggests:

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