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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is "petrified" to see the changes to the dogfight district?
(a) The General.
(b) Manuela Sanchez's mother.
(c) Benedicion Alvarado.
(d) Manuela Sanchez.

2. The General is determined to wipe out every conservative regime from where to where?
(a) Bogota to Lima.
(b) Patagonia to Mongolia.
(c) The Nation to China.
(d) Patagonia to Alaska.

3. What happens during the wedding ceremony?
(a) Rebels attempt to assassinate the General with an exploding milk cart.
(b) Leticia faints from the pressures of marrying the General.
(c) Manuela Sanchez returns to seek vengeance.
(d) Leticia gives birth to Emanuel.

4. How does Bendicion Alvarado persuade the General to stay at her house a little longer?
(a) She kills and cooks a fresh hen.
(b) She prepares a calabash.
(c) She begs and cries.
(d) She feigns a stroke.

5. Who does the General refer to as his Queen?
(a) Lidice Santiago.
(b) Leticia Nazareno.
(c) Bendicion Alvarado.
(d) Manuela Sanchez.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many bars, bolts and locks does the General fasten before urinating on the portable latrine?

2. What prompts the General's marriage to Leticia?

3. When does the comet pass by Manuela Sanchez's house?

4. Where do the lepers live?

5. What does the narrator use to scrape away the layers disfiguring the General's body?

(see the answer key)

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