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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because Angela's unanswered letters make her feel like she is writing to no one:
(a) She is able to be honest and discovers all her feelings.
(b) She risks her reputation in sending them anyway.
(c) She stops writing them.
(d) She writes down all her secrets, including her love for Santiago.

2. The narrator learns that the Vicario twins:
(a) Hid out until the murder so they could not be stopped.
(b) Tried to find someone to stop them from the killing.
(c) Turned themselves in only after they were surrounded.
(d) Acted on behalf of their mother's wishes.

3. Pura Vicario dresses her daughter in red and wraps her face in a cloth, which suggests:
(a) Mourning has no place in the Vicario family.
(b) Pura Vicario has plans to abandon her daughter in the streets.
(c) Pura Vicario is in mourning.
(d) Appearances are important in the Vicario family.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bayardo's statement, "Well, here I am," suggests:

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

4. Prudencia Cotes, Pablo Vicario's fiancee, makes it clear that she:

5. Most of the concerns that keep people from acting on Santiago Nasar's behalf could be described as:

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