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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 house is made out of a former:
(a) Warehouse.
(b) Import store.
(c) Farmhouse.
(d) Parlor.

2. What interrupts Santiago's breakfast?
(a) A warning from Luisa Santiaga.
(b) The threats from Victoria Guzman.
(c) The Vicario twins at the front door.
(d) The bishop's steamboat whistle.

3. When the others in the meat market complain of hangovers or of missing the cake at the wedding, how do the twins reply?
(a) We're going to kill Santiago Nasar.
(b) We just came to sharpen our knives.
(c) When you sacrifice a steer, you don't look into its eyes.
(d) Everybody knows that, you dope.

4. Pablo, the younger twin, finally has to convince his brother to kill Santiago, perhaps because:
(a) Pedro has lost his sense of duty since returning from the military.
(b) Pedro is resistant to any kind of authority.
(c) Pedro is cowardly since his return from the military.
(d) Pedro has been to war and knows what it is to kill a man.

5. Santiago objects to Victoria's actions toward the rabbits because:
(a) He believes they are as precious as human beings.
(b) She guts them savagely and feeds the guts to the dogs.
(c) He does not believe in killing defenseless animals.
(d) She wastes the meat instead of cooking it.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Nasar's house was crowded because:

2. The mayor's asks the priest to perform the autopsy instead of a medically trained person because:

3. Angela's feelings toward Bayardo San Roman might be described as:

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

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

(see the answer key)

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