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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. What does the papal nuncio say about the linen shroud?
(a) It is proof of a miracle.
(b) It is proof of God's divinity only.
(c) It is a fake, produced by a painter.
(d) It is miraculous, but not proof of sainthood.

2. Where does the General kidnap Leticia from?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) The Nation.
(c) Rome.
(d) Jamaica.

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

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

5. The General, in the "feminine splendor" of his death, is compared to which public figure?
(a) The Queen Mother.
(b) A dead pope.
(c) The Virgin Mary,
(d) His own dead mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under which code of "law" does Leticia operate?

2. What did the regime papers print for years before the General's death?

3. Bendicion's funeral crown is made from which of the following flowers?

4. According to popular rumor, what does Lord Kochel eat?

5. Convinced of his mother's holiness, the General writes to which city to begin the canonization process?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is actually running the government by the end of Chapter 5?

2. What does Bendicion Alvarado try to tell the General as she is dying?

3. Why does Leticia always receive inferior merchandise from the market?

4. What does Monsignor Demetrius Aldous discover about Bendicion Alvarado?

5. How does the General learn how to read?

6. After the Papal Nuncio decides that the event was not a miracle, what happens to him?

7. Why does the General's plan to overthrow the U.S. forces fail?

8. Explain the conditions under which Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra is allowed to operate the torture chamber.

9. What are the contents of the sack which appears to be full of coconuts?

10. At the end of his life, how does the General feel about power?

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