Chronicle of a Death Foretold

The Story begins as Santiago Nasar?

• Dies in the street

• Walks home from the wedding

• Says goodbye to his mother for the last time

• wakes up in the morning

Why can't Santiago stand starch in his clothes?

• His skin is too sensitive for it

• He thinks starch is for girls

• It makes his clothes look dirty

• He doesn't want to look stiff

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The white linen clothes Santiago wears on the day of his death makes him look like....

• like he is wearing pajamas

• like he never went to bed

• like he was a ghost

• like a bride

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Santiago has learned to be careful with a gun because

• a servant accidentally fired a gun in his childhood, causing great destruction

• he sleeps with a gun beneath his pillow and does not want it go off accidentally

• his mother always forced him to keep the bullets separate

• he was not wearing his usual clothes with the gun on his belt

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Whose the narrator?

• Santiago

• Angela

• Pedro

• Santiago's best friend

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

How many years ago as the actual murder?

• present day

• 2 months ago

• 27 years ago

• 10 years ago

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

After Santiago's death, Placida Linero consoles herself by looking over the balcony at what?

• the jailhouse

• the town river

• the almond trees

• at Santiago's dead body.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What does the author call some of the events that led to Santiago's death?

• fatal coincidences

• painful memories

• fatal mistakes

• the death trap of ironies

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Santiago's house is made from a former...

• barn

• warehouse

• parlor

• home

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Why does Victoria Guzman distrust Santiago?

• because he never eats his whole meal

• the Vicario twins told her not to

• she knows he will take advantage of her daughter

• because Margot told her not to trust him.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6