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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many officers obey the General's command?
(a) All.
(b) None.
(c) 1.
(d) 19.

2. What does Patricio Aragnoes drink in order to forget how to read and write?
(a) Poison.
(b) Rum.
(c) Iodine.
(d) Turpentine.

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

4. Why does the General become angry with his aids?
(a) He learns that they have made decisions of national importance without consulting him.
(b) His order to create a fair lottery has been disobeyed.
(c) He learns they have hidden a group of two thousand children.
(d) He learns that they have executed all his illegitimate children.

5. What does the papal nuncio say about the linen shroud?
(a) It is a fake, produced by a painter.
(b) It is proof of a miracle.
(c) It is proof of God's divinity only.
(d) It is miraculous, but not proof of sainthood.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which month was the Presidential Palace inaugurated?

2. How are the two thousand children transported from the palace?

3. Which group comes to investigate the disappearance of the children?

4. What does the narrator use to restore the look of life to the corpse?

5. Convinced of his mother's holiness, the General writes to which city to begin the canonization process?

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