1. In what country does Santiago Nasar live?  What is significant about the front and back doors of his house?
2. How does Angela’s marriage lead to violence?
3. What two characters seem doomed or destined for certain acts of fate?
4. Why does widower Xius die?  What does this tell us about Bayardo San Roman?
5. Who says, “I don’t want any flowers at my funeral”?
6. Why are Pablo and Pedro so insistent on killing Santiago?  What does their act mean to their family and to the community?
7. How does Clotilde Armenta try to prevent the murder?
8. Who are Placida Linero, Maria Alejandrina Cervantes, Victoria Guzman, Divina Flor, and Flora Miguel in relation to Santiago Nasar?
9. The autopsy shows that Santiago had a “poorly cured case” of a disease. What disease?
10. What ethnic community does Santiago belong to?
11. What does Angela request from her mother on her wedding night?  How does Angela’s mother react when she is returned?
12. Whose name does Angela give her brothers when she is returned home?
13. How does Angela try to win Bayardo San Roman’s heart back?
14. Is Santiago Nasar innocent?
15. What does Flora Miguel hope the brothers will do, and why?  How does this situation affect her relationship with Santiago?