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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The narrator learns that the Vicario twins:
(a) Hid out until the murder so they could not be stopped.
(b) Turned themselves in only after they were surrounded.
(c) Tried to find someone to stop them from the killing.
(d) Acted on behalf of their mother's wishes.
2. Poncio Vicario's death is attributed to his "moral pain," which suggests:
(a) He knows the murder of Santiago Nasar was not right.
(b) He suffered a painful illness due to his blindness.
(c) He regrets not killing Santiago Nasar himself.
(d) He regrets his sons' prison sentences.
3. Colonel Lazaro Aponte:
(a) Is tired of breaking up fights, and lets the matter go.
(b) Forgets all about the murder plot.
(c) Talks to the twins and decides they are bluffing.
(d) Takes the twins' knives away.
4. The Nasar's house was crowded because:
(a) People had come to pay their respects to Placida Linero.
(b) People had come to help perform the autopsy.
(c) People had come to get in out of the heat.
(d) People had come to view the body.
5. One of the stab wounds in Santiago's hands is described as resembling the stigmata of Christ, which suggests:
(a) The priest's belief in Santiago's innocence.
(b) Santiago's innocence.
(c) The priest's fear that the autopsy was a sin.
(d) Santiago's religious beliefs.
Short Answer Questions
1. The serenade that took place at the widower Xius's house was intended to:
2. Father Amador fails to warn Santiago or his mother of the murder plot because:
3. When Clothilde Armenta says "That day I realized just how alone we women are in the world," she implies:
4. Maria Alejandrina Cervantes never goes to bed with anyone else in Santiago's presence because:
5. The narrator's dream about the voracious child, on the heels of his thought on Santiago's horrific death, might suggest:
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