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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pablo Vicario goes on to:
(a) Become a metalsmith and marries his fiance.
(b) Enlist in the army and disappears in the jungle.
(c) Marry his fiance and dies shortly thereafter.
(d) Become a metalsmith and dies in his fathers shop.

2. The narrator's recounting of Colonel Lazaro Aponte's mundane morning details reveals:
(a) The Colonel is more interested in his own concerns than in warning Santiago Nasar.
(b) The Colonel is far too distracted by the bishop's visit to warn Santiago Nasar.
(c) The Colonel believes Santiago Nasar should die.
(d) The Colonel has not been warned about the murder plot either.

3. The court that tries the Vicario twins decides:
(a) They acted honorably in defense of their sister.
(b) They will both be hanged.
(c) They are mentally unfit to stand trial.
(d) They will be punished in the afterlife.

4. The Vicario family:
(a) Leaves the town, never to return.
(b) Leaves the town, plotting to return and help the brothers escape.
(c) Guards the prisoners in prison with shotguns.
(d) Gives the mayor a bribe to help them escape the town.

5. Angela is frightened that:
(a) Her mother will come and frighten him away.
(b) Bayardo will still be angry after seventeen years.
(c) Bayardo may not feel enough love for her to forgive her aging.
(d) Bayardo has come to force her to confess.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes handles her grief by:

2. Santiago Nasar insists on returning home for an hour so that:

3. Santiago Nasar's tendency to disguise the girls' identities might suggest that:

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

5. Prudencia Cotes, Pablo Vicario's fiancee, makes it clear that she:

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