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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his old age, the General is compared to which animals?
(a) Toads and lemurs.
(b) Snakes and tortoises.
(c) Tortoises and elephants.
(d) Elephants and squirrels.

2. Convinced of his mother's holiness, the General writes to which city to begin the canonization process?
(a) Rome.
(b) Chile.
(c) Bogota.
(d) Patagonia.

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

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

5. What did the Marines bring with them during their landing in the nation?
(a) Military secrets and cartography.
(b) The cure for yellow fever.
(c) Red Cross aid supplies.
(d) Syphilis and Bibles.

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

7. What does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra spend his money on?
(a) The clothing of a prince.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) His fussy wife.
(d) Fine foods.

8. What does the General stop to contemplate 23 times?
(a) The treachery of U.S. ambassadors.
(b) The mystery of the city without a sea.
(c) The pesky cow he intercepts.
(d) The wonder of his rise and fall.

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

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

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

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

13. 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 private sockery of the Supreme Pontiff.
(d) From the corpses of his enemies.

14. Which of Bendicion Alvarado's miracles is most astonishing?
(a) She cures the crippled.
(b) Her presence calms the sea.
(c) Her body appears to be alive after her death.
(d) She causes flowers to bloom on salt flats.

15. Where are the torture chambers located before they are destroyed?
(a) The old Dutch asylum,
(b) Along the coast of the Caribbean Sea.
(c) Inside the presidential palace.
(d) The old American embassy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the papal nuncio say about the linen shroud?

2. How did the General rise to power?

3. How had the General's government marked those suspected of nonconformity?

4. What is placed in Bendicion Alvarado's hand?

5. What does the second bulletin released after the General's death declare?

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