View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator does not believe Santiago had a guilty conscience that night because:
(a) He continued to court Angela Vicario.
(b) His manner was carefree and celbratory.
(c) He challenged anyone who did not believe him to a fight.
(d) He refused to go to the widower Xius's house.

3. Poncio Vicario's death is attributed to his "moral pain," which suggests:
(a) He suffered a painful illness due to his blindness.
(b) He knows the murder of Santiago Nasar was not right.
(c) He regrets his sons' prison sentences.
(d) He regrets not killing Santiago Nasar himself.

4. The fact that the narrator does not remember rain on the day of the murder suggests:
(a) That he himself understands the matter on some level.
(b) That he is too traumatized to remember.
(c) That he was hiding out at the whorehouse.
(d) That he wanted Santiago Nasar to die.

5. Because Angela's unanswered letters make her feel like she is writing to no one:
(a) She writes down all her secrets, including her love for Santiago.
(b) She is able to be honest and discovers all her feelings.
(c) She risks her reputation in sending them anyway.
(d) She stops writing them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Santiago's house is made out of a former:

2. Officer Leandro Pornoy, who visited with the twins at Clothilde Armenta's:

3. What might Santiago's dreams of trees symbolize?

4. Ironically, the Vicario brothers were engaged in what activity when they were called home?

5. Clothilde Armenta correctly assumes that:

(see the answer key)

This section contains 428 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample