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- 1. Multiple Choice
What was Victoria Guzman doing when Santiago came to the kitchen for breakfast?
Sharpening knives
Removing feathers from chickens
Preparing an omelette
Gutting rabbits
- 2. Multiple Choice
What was the name of the woman who ran the milk shop?
Maria Armenta
Santiaga Louisa
Clotilde Armenta
Flora Miguel
- 3. Fill in the Blank
Pura Vicario crushed Angela's idea about wanting to marry someone she chooses rather than Bayardo San Roman by saying:
- 4. Multiple Choice
Why did Colonel Lazaro Aponte not take what the twins said seriously?
He was drunk.
He thought the twins were drunk.
His was tired.
He did not want to stir up any drama.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Who is engaged to Santiago Nasar?
Angela Vicario
Divina Flor
Flora Miguel
Rosario Armenta
- 6. Multiple Choice
Choose all of the following reasons that the music box was significant to Bayardo San Roman:
To make everyone know he was rich
To impress Angela
To control Angela
To keep with him forever
To show his love for Angela
- 7. Multiple Choice
Why did Pura Vicario think Angela and Bayardo were ghosts on the night of the wedding?
They made ghost sounds and looked green.
They looked disheveled like their car had crashed.
They seemed to be floating in the air.
They were appearing and disappearing.
- 8. Multiple Choice
How did the twins suffer when in jail awaiting trial?
They had vivid hallucinations of snakes and people attacking them.
They could not eat or drink anything while they were imprisoned.
They were poisoned by the Arab community seeking revenge.
They had nightmares and smelled Santiago Nasar no matter what.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What did the twins say when they got to the church after killing Santiago?
We are here to confess.
We have killed that dirty dog.
We happily killed him, and we're innocent.
We killed him openly, but we're innocent.
- 10. Multiple Choice
For most people in the town, who was the "only" victim?
Angela Vicario
Santiago Nasar
Bayardo San Roman
The Vicario Family
- 11. Multiple Choice
What do Angela's friends and confidantes explain to her about a woman's "honor" or virginity?
It can be faked easily.
It is the most important thing.
No one really cares about it.
She should be ashamed of losing it.
- 12. Multiple Choice
The narrator is a friend of Bayardo San Roman that has come back to research the murder and write about it.
True
False
- 13. Multiple ChoiceDid Santiago Nasar actually take Angela Vicario's virginity?NoYesIt isn't stated.
- 14. Multiple Choice
What was Santiago Nasar wearing when he was killed?
A white linen suit
A wedding suit
Pajamas
Riding clothes
- 15. Multiple Choice
Did the Vicario brothers want to kill Santiago?
Yes
No
- 16. Multiple Choice
What did Angela obsess over for 17 years after the night she was returned home?
Her ruined life
The murder
Santiago Nasar
Bayardo San Roman
- 17. Multiple Choice
The Vicario family lived the rest of their lives in the town and eventually everyone forgot what happened.
True
False
- 18. Multiple Choice
Santiago is portrayed as an "other" in part because his father was...
Italian
Arabic
American
African
- 19. Multiple Choice
Who beats Angela to find out the name of her seducer?
Her father and brothers
Her mother
The town priest
Her husband
- 20. Multiple Choice
Because the ___________ is coming to town, everyone is very excited and several people fail to warn Santiago about his own murder.
Bishop
Pope
Cardinal
President
- 21. Multiple Choice
How many letters did Angela write to Bayardo?
500
1,000
2,000
None
- 22. Multiple Choice
Who performs (and bungles) Santiago's autopsy?
The priest
The town's doctor
The policeman
The butcher
- 23. Multiple Choice
Which character doesn't TRY to warn Santiago?
Victoria Guzman
Flora Miguel
Cristo Bedoya
Clotilde Armenta
- 24. Multiple Choice
To emphasize the lack of facts in the story, which element can't the characters agree on?
Santiago's outfit
The weather
The time he was murdered
The date of his murder
- 25. Multiple Choice
Who is being described here?
The protagonist of the story. He is killed the day after Angela Vicario's wedding.
Pedro Vicario
Bayardo San Roman
Santiago Nasar
Poncio Vicario
- 26. Multiple Choice
Who is being described here?
The dishonored bride. She becomes a seamstress after being returned home on her wedding night. She was very beautiful in her youth
Placida Linero
Angela Vicario
Maria Alejandrina Cervantes
Prudencia Cotes
- 27. Multiple Choice
Who is being described here?
Santiago's mother. She has a well-earned reputation as an interpreter of dreams. She never forgives herself for misinterpreting the dream about trees and birds that her son had the night before his death.
Placida Linero
Maria Alejandrina Cervantes
Prudencia Cotes
Divina Flor
- 28. Multiple Choice
Who is being described here?
The Nasars' cook. She violently guts rabbits on the morning of the murder. She had an affair with Ibrahim Nasar when she was a teenager.
Divina Flor
Victoria Guzman
Placida Linero
Maria Alejandra Cervantes
- 29. Multiple Choice
Who is being described here?
Victoria Guzman's daughter who has recently come "into bloom."
Margot
Divina Flor
Flora Miguel
Rosa Maria Cortes
- 30. Multiple Choice
Who is being described here?
The local priest, who forgets to warn Santiago Nasar about the plot against him.
Faustino Santos
Carmen Amador
Luis Enrique
Don Rogelio de la Flor
- 31. Multiple Choice
Who is being described here?
A friend of the narrator's and of Santiago Nasar. He runs all over town trying to warn Santiago of the Vicario's plan.
Cristo Bedoya
Luis Enrique
Faustino Santos
Bayardo San Roman
- 32. Multiple Choice
The opening paragraph introduces and discusses the theme of ________________.
fact, fiction, and memory with the recalling of events that establishes the genre of magical realism.
fate versus free will in that Santiago's fate to die is predestined.
the community is consumed with the violence and trauma of the murder of Santiago Nasar.
the sacred and the profane with the use of symbolism.
- 33. Multiple Choice
The central action which shapes and informs every page of Chronicle of a Death Foretold is __________________________________________.
the community's complicity in the hatred and murder of an elitist aristocrat.
a mother's love of her son that is so deep and guilt-ridden that she failed to deter his murder that her life essentially ends with his murder.
the murder of the twenty-one-year-old aristocrat, Santiago Nasar, by the Vicario brothers in a “legitimate defense” of their sister’s honor.
the misogynistic treatment of working class woman by wealthy and elitist men.
- 34. Multiple Choice
In the end, the question of whether Santiago Nasar actually deserved his fate...
is presented and agreed that he did not deserve to be murdered.
is presented and agreed that he did deserve to be murdered.
is presented but remains unanswered.
is a cliff hanger that allows the reader to answer the question
- 35. Multiple Choice
Why did Victoria Guzman and her daughter decline to warn Santiago Nasar that the Vicaro twins planned to murder him?
They wanted to see him dead because he abused Davina and his father abused her mother Victoria.
Victoria and Divina are the first characters with the opportunity to warn Santiago, and the first to decline that opportunity.
They were both filled with fear, incredulity, and hatred, and this failure presents the reader with first insights into the greater community’s complicity in the crime.
They did not want to lose their only way to earn a decent wage.
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