View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age does Emanuel stand, champagne glass filled with juice in hand, and discuss matters of grown-up importance?
(a) 6.
(b) 14.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

2. What does Ambassador Wilson bring to the General to console him?
(a) Specialty steaks and fine wines.
(b) Dutch prostitutes.
(c) Candy from Baltimore and gentleman's magazines.
(d) A portrait of Leticia and Emanuel.

3. The General agonizes over a scrap of paper. What does it read?
(a) God damns sinners.
(b) My name is Zacarias.
(c) God save the Maginificent.
(d) The General is dead.

4. Where does the General get his socks?
(a) From a group of school girls, commissioned to knit his footwear.
(b) From the nuns at his wife's former convent.
(c) From the corpses of his enemies.
(d) From the private sockery of the Supreme Pontiff.

5. What does the first bulletin released after the General's death declare?
(a) A serious illness has compromised the General.
(b) A security threat has caused the General to remain under close supervision.
(c) A slight indisposition has obliged him to cancel appearances.
(d) The General has requested personal time away from the people.

6. Who poses as a student and sleeps with the General?
(a) Otilia.
(b) Leticia Nazareno.
(c) Cecilia.
(d) A waterfront prostitute.

7. After both bulletins, how is the General's death finally announced?
(a) A public announcement declaring the General dead.
(b) A public celebration.
(c) A public mourning, after which the next President is inaugurated.
(d) Cathedral bells toll.

8. To whom does the General pray in his last moments?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) No one.
(c) God.
(d) His mother.

9. What does the General do in honor of Leticia and the boy?
(a) The orders the market raized and replaced by a garden with a marble cross.
(b) He establishes a new national poetry contest.
(c) He dedicates another cult to the memory of his wife and son.
(d) He donates all his possession, but not his power, to the Church.

10. What does the General do after his mother dies?
(a) He weeps for 13 days.
(b) He sleeps face-down next to her body.
(c) He attempts to revive her for hours.
(d) He calls on the local priest to give her last rites.

11. What does Ambassador Eberhart give the General as a distraction from the bad business deal?
(a) A bottle of rum.
(b) A promise of future economic relations.
(c) A wind machine.
(d) Rights to visit the Caribbean Sea.

12. How is the Caribbean Sea reassembled?
(a) By carefully recreating the biosphere.
(b) Using the intution of clairvoyants.
(c) Using the personal memory of the General.
(d) Using a system of numbered pieces.

13. What happens to Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra?
(a) He overthrows the General on a campaign of pure terror.
(b) He is beaten to a pulp and strung up from a lamppost with his testicles in his mouth.
(c) He is castrated and driven from the nation naked.
(d) He becomes the General's second in command and proceeds to terrorize the nation under the General's orders.

14. What prompts the General to have all of Leticia's food inspected?
(a) A bad omen.
(b) A threatening note.
(c) Leticia's sudden vomiting spell.
(d) A fish bone in her bread.

15. What happens as a result of the Vatican's decision in the cause of Bendicion Alvarado?
(a) The Eritrean is murdered.
(b) The Apostolic Nunciature is ransacked.
(c) The General calmly appeals the decision.
(d) Nationwide celebrations erupt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has the General been in power?

2. In his old age, the General is compared to which animals?

3. Which character's death is described as a marker of the end of creation?

4. How many enemies did the General suspect of conspiring against him?

5. What does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra spend his money on?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 607 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample