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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following objects was NOT among the items bearing the General's face?
(a) Coins.
(b) Stamps.
(c) Cereal.
(d) Condoms.

2. What does the narrator use to scrape away the layers disfiguring the General's body?
(a) Pumice stone.
(b) A knife blade.
(c) Fish scalers.
(d) A flint edge.

3. Where does the General read of a death identical to one he dreamed about?
(a) In the writings of General Lautaro Munoz.
(b) In the Bible.
(c) In the tomes of Julius Caesar.
(d) In the records of his father's life.

4. Which of the following is NOT something General Rodrigo de Aguilar has in common with Ambassador Norton?
(a) Dutch prostitutes.
(b) Fencing.
(c) A predilection for Puerto Rican rum.
(d) A weapons smuggling enterprise.

5. What happens to the crocodiles after the sack of the palace?
(a) They are made the national reptile.
(b) They are killed.
(c) They are released into the wild.
(d) They are honored as the General's personal guards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Red Cross shipments?

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

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

4. The General paid the blind man 5 cents to do which of the following?

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

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