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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Poncio Daza?
(a) He takes a walk with the barefoot Indian.
(b) He is spared because he concedes to the General's wishes.
(c) He is dismembered because the General favors his wife.
(d) He kills himself after the General rapes his wife.

3. What happens to the Red Cross shipments?
(a) They are allowed to spoil before being sent to the needy.
(b) They are rejected by the General as signs of imperialism.
(c) They are welcomed as much-needed aid.
(d) They are seized, sold and resold by corrupt ministers.

4. How is the lottery rigged so that the General always wins?
(a) There are no other entrants.
(b) The winning balls are weighted.
(c) Two thousand children control the pickings.
(d) The people are too afraid to enter the lottery.

5. Who does the General refer to as his Queen?
(a) Manuela Sanchez.
(b) Leticia Nazareno.
(c) Lidice Santiago.
(d) Bendicion Alvarado.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lost an arm defusing a bomb intended for the General?

2. What happens to the dogs of the dogfight district during the renewal?

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

4. Patricio Aragones proclaimed the General president of _________.

5. What was the motto of the national baseball team?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the wild parrots exterminated by the Secret police?

2. Why does the General relocate his mother to a mansion in the suburbs?

3. How does Patricio Aragones feel toward the President?

4. How does Saturno Santos come to work for the General and why must he stop?

5. What does the General do with the two thousand children whose continued existence would threaten the General's position as president?

6. Describe the state of the presidential palace when the book opens.

7. What happens to the Defense Minister?

8. Why does the General restore the March poetry contest?

9. How does the General prepare for the coming hurricane?

10. What is the General's "second death"?

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