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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is placed in Bendicion Alvarado's hand?
(a) A pink silk tulip.
(b) Her finest oriole painting.
(c) A pink live tulip.
(d) A fine oriole.

2. What reason does Ambassador Thompson give for the Marine occupation of the Nation?
(a) Genocide.
(b) Cholera.
(c) War crimes.
(d) Yellow fever.

3. Why does the General murder the old woman?
(a) In order to silence his mother.
(b) Because she threatened to expose him.
(c) Because she knew about the two thousand children.
(d) So that no one would know the circumstances of his death.

4. What did the General's escort--the Guajiro Indian--carry with him in the early days of the General's reign?
(a) A .32 caliber.
(b) A cane-cutting machete.
(c) A bottle of rum.
(d) A man-eating dog.

5. When does the comet pass by Manuela Sanchez's house?
(a) 3:05.
(b) 11:06.
(c) 9:42.
(d) 7:01.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the nuncio refuses to canonize Bendicion, what does the General do?

2. What was the motto of the national baseball team?

3. Where does the General sit as the comet passes over?

4. The General proclaimed Benedicion Alvarado which of the following?

5. Who does the General refer to as his Queen?

(see the answer key)

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