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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra bill the General for?
(a) His protection.
(b) His services as a gardener.
(c) Delivering produce.
(d) His services as an assassin.

3. How many folios of information does Demetrius Aldous compile?
(a) 7.
(b) 370 folios in 7 volumes.
(c) 350.
(d) 7 folios in 350 volumes.

4. What animal does Emanuel resemble when he is born?
(a) A goat.
(b) A bird.
(c) A dog.
(d) A calf fetus.

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

6. What happens when the General refuses to allow U.S. troops into the nation?
(a) They depose the General.
(b) They infect the nation with yellow fever.
(c) They haul away the Carribbean Sea.
(d) They invade the capitol.

7. How long has the General been in power?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) 150 years.
(d) 50 years.

8. What color are the General's socks?
(a) Grey.
(b) Pink.
(c) One black, one purple.
(d) Purple.

9. How had President Lauturo Munoz risen to power?
(a) He was in league with the U.S. ambassadors against the General.
(b) He executed the General.
(c) He befriended the General in his last days and became his successor.
(d) He rose to power during the eleven years of political coups and bloody rivalries.

10. How did the General rise to power?
(a) With the help of the English.
(b) In a single-handed display of military prowess.
(c) By using his mother in his political campaigning.
(d) By being the only reasonable candidate.

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

12. Which character's death is described as a marker of the end of creation?
(a) Major General Rodrigo de Aguilar's.
(b) The General's.
(c) Manuela Sanchez's.
(d) Leticia Nazareno's.

13. How do Leticia and Emanuel die?
(a) They are attacked and eaten by dogs in the market.
(b) They are poisoned, despite the General's inspections.
(c) They are shot from a distance by a keen marksman.
(d) A milk cart explodes inside the palace.

14. Not even which of the following could restore a look of authority to the General's corpse?
(a) The glass eyes.
(b) His spurs.
(c) His uniform.
(d) His ring.

15. How does the town react to the news of the General's death?
(a) Mournful.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Reticent.
(d) Jubilant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Leticia Nazareno respond when the General calls her name?

2. What prompts the General's marriage to Leticia?

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

4. In a sack of what seems like coconuts, what does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra deliver to the General?

5. What does the General do in honor of Leticia and the boy?

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