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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Another event that adds to the mystery of Bayardo San Roman is that:
(a) He is two hours late for his own wedding.
(b) He is cold and aloof toward Angela.
(c) He is nowhere to be found on his wedding day.
(d) He returns Angela to her home.

2. Angela Vicario's brothers insist that she:
(a) Uphold the family honor.
(b) Leave the household forever.
(c) Reveal the name of her lover.
(d) Return to her husband and beg forgiveness.

3. The bishop's refusal to stop in the village suggests what?
(a) The bishop knows of the murder plot.
(b) No one in authority cared about the town or its inhabitants.
(c) The bishop, and therefore God, has neglected the town.
(d) The town was not in need of help.

4. The mayor foolishly assumes that the twins can not commit the murder because:
(a) He convinced them to forget the whole ordeal.
(b) He took their knives away.
(c) He threatened to arrest them.
(d) He saw them go home to bed.

5. The twins were transferred to:
(a) The mayor's house.
(b) Santiago Nasar's house.
(c) The school auditorium.
(d) Their mother's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Up until the time of the murder the Vicario twins:

2. The repeated mention of Victoria Guzman watching over the coffee pot and gutting animals connotes which popular image?

3. Despite her fear of Santiago, what does Divina Flor do that might help him the morning of his death?

4. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes handles her grief by:

5. The narrator finds the magistrate's report floating in the water twenty years later, which suggests:

(see the answer key)

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