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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Santiago's autopsy has to be performed in a hurry because:
(a) The heat is extreme and the body is decomposing.
(b) The townspeople want to desecrate the remains.
(c) Santiago's coffin is prepared and waiting for him.
(d) The Nasars' dogs have begun to eat the body.

2. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes' house appears to be:
(a) A boarding house.
(b) A brothel.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A sweatshop.

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

4. Why does Father Carmen Amador perform Santiago's autopsy?
(a) The town's doctor is gone at present, and no one else was qualified and willing.
(b) Santiago's mother insists that only a priest may touch her son's body.
(c) Santiago's mother does not trust the town doctor or Christo Bedoya, the medical student.
(d) The town's doctor is still drunk from the wedding festivities.

5. The Poncio twins lifting their sister by the waist and demanding an answer from her suggests what about her character?
(a) She is defiant and childlike.
(b) She is powerful, and they must subdue her.
(c) She is likely to escape if not guarded.
(d) She is helpless and has no will of her own.

Short Answer Questions

1. The repeated foretelling of Santiago Nasar's death suggests:

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

3. The motif of blindness in the chapter suggests:

4. The Vicario family:

5. The narrator does not believe Santiago had a guilty conscience that night because:

(see the answer key)

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