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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the General's body parts seems out of proportion to the narrator?
(a) His hands.
(b) His ears.
(c) His sunken eyes.
(d) His feet.

2. What was the motto of the national baseball team?
(a) Survival of the Fittest.
(b) All for One.
(c) First Under the General.
(d) Victory or Death.

3. When the General looks at other nations, what pattern does he notice?
(a) Change, revolution and revival.
(b) The rise of strong-man governments.
(c) Stagnation.
(d) The decay of colonial government.

4. Both as a tribute to his mother and as a joke, people begin to send the General which of the following gifts?
(a) Portraits of the General and his mother.
(b) Red birettas.
(c) Cages of birds.
(d) Nun's habits.

5. Benedicion Alvarado screamed in horror because the walls perpetually oozed which of the following after the banquet?
(a) Blood.
(b) A strange black substance.
(c) Tears.
(d) Urine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did Benedicion Alvarado give for her housing preference?

2. How long will it be until the next comet passes?

3. Which part of the General's corpse didn't the vultures peck?

4. What type of suit does the General use as a disguise?

5. How were the generals killed, according to the record?

(see the answer key)

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