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Chronicle of a Death
IB English study material for Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Máquez
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Nasar house before Ibrahim Nasar moved into it? | Warehouse |
| How old was Santiago Nasar when he died? | 21, his birthday was the month before (in January) |
| When was Santiago Nasar killed? | A monday in February at 7:05 |
| How long did Bayardo know Angela before marrying her? | 5 months |
| What did Bayardo win by buying all of the raffle tickets in hopes to win Angela’s heart? | A music box |
| Who owned the house that Angela said was the most beautiful in the town? | The widower Xius (Bayardo bullied him into selling it) |
| Why does Angela say she cried when she was being beaten? | She realized that she actually loved Bayardo |
| What do the Vicario brothers do when they learn that Santiago supposedly took Angela’s virginity? | sharpen their knives at the meat market and tell everyone around them of their plot |
| What shop keeper kept trying in vain to warn people and have someone stop the Vicario brothers? | Clotilde Armenta |
| Why was Colonel Aponte unable to stop the Vicario brothers in time? | He had to check on a domino date in the social club |
| Why couldn’t Cristo Bedoya warn Santiago or stop the murder? | He kept looking in the wrong places and got caught up helping the father of the Arangos family. |
| Who said they saw Santiago go up the stairs with roses making Placida Linero think her son is safe inside the house? | Divina Flor |
| What does Santiago do after he is stabbed? | He walks through a neighbor’s house to get to his back door while holding his intestines. |
| After being in prison for a day, where were the Vicario twins transferred to? | Riohacha |
| How long were the Vicario brothers in prison? | 3 years |
| Where does Angela see Bayardo triggering her to write letters to him? | A hotel lobby |
| How many siblings does Gabriel García Márquez have? | 15, he is the oldest of 16 children |
| What was Márquez’s job before writing novels? | Newspaper reporter |
| What Prize did Márquez receive for his book 100 Years of Solitude? | The 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature |
| What style of writing is Gabriel García Márquez known for writing in? | Magical realism |
| This style of writing is characterized a by a world very much like the real world but mystical events or visions occur and are seen as normal by the characters in the story | Magical realism |
| This man was born to a marriage of convenience. He loves firearms, valor, and falconry because of his father who died 3 years before the main events of the story take place. He was engaged to Flora Miguel. He was brutally killed. | Santiago Nasar |
| What do the orange blossoms that Angela carried signify? | Chastity and purity |
| Who does Angela Vicario say stole her virginity? | Santiago Nasar |
| This man was born to a marriage of convenience. He loves firearms, valor, and falconry because of his father who died 3 years before the main events of the story take place. He was engaged to Flora Miguel. He was brutally killed. | Santiago Nasar |
| The mother of the man killed in this story. She is known for interpreting dreams however this failed to help her protect her son. She does not forgive herself for misinterpreting her son's dream. She shut the door accidentally securing her son's death | Placida Linero |
| She is the cook of the Nasar home. She is protective of her daughter, she does not want her to follow the same path of having an affair with the head of the Nasar household. She violently guts rabbits in the beginning of the book. She dislikes Santiago | Victoria Guzman |
| Victoria Guzman's daughter. Santiago desires her sexually, but Victoria watches carefully to make sure he does not do anything to her. She told Placida Linero that Santiago was in the house. | Divina Flor |
| -Santiago's father, an Arab. He seduced Victoria Guzman when she was a teenager. He taught his son the art of falconry and his love of firearms. He died 3 years before the murder of Santiago. | Ibrahim Nasar |
| Woman who owns a milk shop with her husband. the Vicario brothers wait at her store. She tries to get them drunk and get other people to stop the brothers but this all fails. | Clotihilde Armenta |
| This Vicario brother is more serious. It was his idea to kill Santiago but later did not want to go through with it when they lost their knives. | Pedro Vicario |
| This Vicario brother spent time in the army. After the brothers' sentences were finished he went back into the army and disappeared while on a patrol. | Pedro Vicario |
| This Vicario brother has the urinary condition which went away after having terrible diarrhea in jail | Pedro Vicario |
| This is the twin that insisted they go through with the crime. | Pablo Vicario |
| This Vicario brother was engaged with Prudencia Cotes and got married to her after being released. This one also became a goldsmith after being released. | Pablo Vicario |
| This Vicario brother held the knives on the stone while sharpening the knives | Pedro Vicario |
| This Vicario brother worked the crank while sharpening the knives | Pablo Vicario |
| Sister of the narrator. She thinks that Santiago would be quite a catch. She invited Santiago to breakfast. She is also a nun | Margot |
| Priest who forgot to tell Santiago that the Vicario brothers wanted to kill him. Later he helps perform the autopsy. | Father Carmen Amador |
| A friend of Santiago and the narrorator, he runs all around the town in hopes to warn Santiago but fails to do so. | Cristo Bedoya |
| Santiago's fiance. Yells at him when he visits her right before getting killed. | Flora Miguel |
| mayor and lazy colonel. Takes the knives away and thinks he did everything. | Don Lazaro Aponte |
| The mother of narrator, Santiago is named after her. She seems to know everything before it happens | Luisa Santiaga |
| Married Angela Vicario. when he first came people thought he was great, he was rich and hot. He bought Xius's home and when he discovered that Angela wasn't a virgin he was distraught. he has a father, who is a decorated soldier, mother and 2 sisters | Bayardo San Roman |
| Got married to Bayardo. Said that Santiago took her virginity. before being married she mostly hung out with her sisters. didn't really want to marry Bayardo but fell in love with him after he ditched her | Angela Vicario |
| Wife of narrator, shares a name with the author's real wife. | Mercedes |
| Local doctor, he was meant to perform the autopsy of Santiago but was on vacation | Dr Dionisio Iguarian |
| Narrator's younger brother. Plays guitar and he, the narrator, Santiago, and Cristo serenaded Bayardo and Angela when they weren't there. | Luis Enrique |
| Mother of Angela Vicario. Beats her daughter when whe gets brought home by Bayardo, | Purisima del Carmen |
| Angela's father. Went blind. He was a goldsmith. | Poncio Vicario |
| Prostitute. Passionate lover of Santiago. Eats lots of food when mourning Santiago. Has eyes like an "insomniac leopard" | Maria Cervantes |
| Husband of Clothilde Armenta. Doesn't listen to his wife when she warns him about the twins. Dies of shock at age 86 when he sees how Santiago was killed. | Don de la Flor |
| prophetic warning, omen | Augury |
| Sacred, having to do with the apostles | Apostolic |
| Lying down, kind of lazy | Prostrated |
| The part of a church where people get baptized | Baptistry |
| Fancy bishop-like, church type | Pontifical |
| Group of attendants | Retinue |
| A vegetable that looks tasty, another name for cassava | Manioc |
| a Portuguese song | Fado |
| unclear, complicated, or confused situation | Morass |
| Impoverishment, extreme poverty | Penury |
| A Dominican republic type of dance | Merengue |
| a very solid type of wood (strongest wood) | Lignum Vitae |
| a circular prison built so that one guard can watch a whole prison | Panopticon |
| A piece of art made out of layered wood | Marquerty |
| A medical tool that absorbs bodily fluids | Seton |
| old timey word for lord/owner of a manor | Seigneur |
| enlargement/growing | Hypertophy |
| the last straw | Coup de grace |
| a sorrowful feeling | Penitential |
| clarity of the mind | Lucidity |
| Arab/muslim | Saracen |
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