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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bayardo's statement, "Well, here I am," suggests:
(a) That he has come to confront her about her behavior.
(b) That he is now ready to hear her explanations.
(c) That he has been there all along.
(d) That he knows what Angela wants and has forgiven her.

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

4. One of the stab wounds in Santiago's hands is described as resembling the stigmata of Christ, which suggests:
(a) The priest's fear that the autopsy was a sin.
(b) Santiago's religious beliefs.
(c) Santiago's innocence.
(d) The priest's belief in Santiago's innocence.

5. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes refuses to believe that the twins came to her place looking for Santiago because:
(a) She did not allow the twins entrance to her place.
(b) She claims they were not allowed to visit her establishment.
(c) She does not remember the events of that evening clearly.
(d) She claims they never would have left.

Short Answer Questions

1. The court that tries the Vicario twins decides:

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

3. The narrator's recounting of Colonel Lazaro Aponte's mundane morning details reveals:

4. Pablo, the younger twin, finally has to convince his brother to kill Santiago, perhaps because:

5. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes handles her grief by:

(see the answer keys)

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