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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bendicion Alvarado's body is returned to the General, what has changed?
(a) Each person has added a tribute to the mother of the Nation.
(b) Her body has been defiled.
(c) The pink tulip is missing.
(d) The people have added tokens of the miracles that happened in her presence.

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

3. What does the General do after his mother dies?
(a) He sleeps face-down next to her body.
(b) He weeps for 13 days.
(c) He calls on the local priest to give her last rites.
(d) He attempts to revive her for hours.

4. How many lacquered bibles are there?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 1.

5. In the diplomat's report, what is the cow eating?
(a) A wad of dung.
(b) A portrait of an archbishop.
(c) The General's uniform.
(d) Roses from the lepers' bushes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did Benedicion Alvarado give for her housing preference?

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

3. Which group comes to investigate the disappearance of the children?

4. Which item in the palace gives proof to the legend that bullets would pass through the General's body without harming him?

5. Where did Benedicion Alvarado prefer to live?

(see the answer key)

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