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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The brothers' plan to murder Santiago is strangely contradicted at Clothilde Armenta's house by:
(a) Their inability to eat or drink anything.
(b) Their desire to shave and clean up.
(c) Their disbelief in their sister's guilt.
(d) Their proclamations that they don't want to kill Santiago.

3. Prudencia Cotes, Pablo Vicario's fiancee, makes it clear that she:
(a) Will not wait for Pablo Vicario if he commits this crime.
(b) Believes Angela Vicario is completely innocent.
(c) Believes the men acted necessarily in defense of honor.
(d) Expects Pablo Vicario to wait for her.

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

5. Faustino Santos, the twins' friend, reports their claim to:
(a) Victoria Guzman, the cook.
(b) Leandro Pornoy, a police officer.
(c) Don Rogelio de la Flor, Clothilde Armenta's husband.
(d) Poncio Vicario, the twins' father.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Ironically, the matriarch of the Arab community was responsible for:

4. The twins were transferred to:

5. The Vicario twins' behavior suggests:

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