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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the bands who sack the Presidential Palace?
(a) They are pardoned by the General at the request of Benedicion Alvarado.
(b) They are tortured in the San Jeronimo barracks.
(c) They are exiled to Spain.
(d) They are summarily executed.

2. Which omen caused the General to change the date of a public appearance?
(a) The General saw a backwards comet.
(b) Bendicion Alvarado found an egg with two yolks.
(c) A dog died on the steps of the palace.
(d) All the birds in the palace died.

3. What substance does the General give to Patricio Aragones as he lays dying?
(a) Anodyne.
(b) Iodine.
(c) Magnesium Sulfate.
(d) Potassium Chlorate.

4. What is Bendicion Alvarado's coffin filled with, to keep her body from rotting?
(a) Ice and saw dust.
(b) Roses and cedar chips.
(c) Alcohol and ice.
(d) Formaldehyde and ice.

5. The General paid a man 200 pesos to do which of the following during his mother's procession?
(a) Shoot any naysayers at the procession.
(b) Pretend to have risen from the dead.
(c) Carry a child, claiming that she has been healed by Bendicion.
(d) Pretend to be a leper cured by Bendicion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the cause of Bendicion Alvarado?

2. The General paid the blind man 5 cents to do which of the following?

3. What does the General see anchored at sea?

4. How many assassination attempts did Patricio Aragones survive before he was hired by the General?

5. Why does the General murder the old woman?

(see the answer key)

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