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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. In which month was the Presidential Palace inaugurated?
(a) March.
(b) January.
(c) December.
(d) October.

2. Who lost an arm defusing a bomb intended for the General?
(a) Bendicion Alvarado.
(b) General Rodrigo de Aguilar.
(c) Patricio Aragones.
(d) Poncio Daza.

3. How are the two thousand children transported from the palace?
(a) In milk carts, disguised as peasants.
(b) In a barge.
(c) In the presidential limo, four-by-four.
(d) In boxcars late at night.

4. Which type of animal destroyed the palace?
(a) Vultures.
(b) Coyotes.
(c) Cows.
(d) Dogs.

5. The General is determined to wipe out every conservative regime from where to where?
(a) Patagonia to Mongolia.
(b) Bogota to Lima.
(c) Patagonia to Alaska.
(d) The Nation to China.

Short Answer Questions

1. What substance does the General give to Patricio Aragones as he lays dying?

2. What do the signs in the main square read as they celebrate both the General's believed death and his discovered health?

3. How did the General sign decrees?

4. Which of the General's body parts seems out of proportion to the narrator?

5. How does Narisco Miraval die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the General's "first death"? Describe the circumstances and provide details.

3. After the U.S. occupiers leave, why is Bendicion Alvarado unhappy?

4. How does Patricio Aragones feel toward the President?

5. How does the good fishwife unwittingly prove her loyalty to the General? Describe her actions.

6. Describe the Caribbean Sea at the opening of Chapter 3.

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

8. How does Manuela Sanchez respond to the appearance of the comet?

9. What happens to the Defense Minister?

10. Who were the Federalists?

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