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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Patricio Aragnoes drink in order to forget how to read and write?
(a) Iodine.
(b) Turpentine.
(c) Poison.
(d) Rum.

2. What type of contest does the General institute?
(a) A national speech contest.
(b) A beauty contest.
(c) A shooting contest.
(d) A spelling bee.

3. How does Patricio Aragones die?
(a) He is wounded by a poisoned dart.
(b) He is stabbed by a guard.
(c) He drowns in a bathtub.
(d) His carriage is destroyed by dynamite.

4. How long will it be until the next comet passes?
(a) 75 years.
(b) 150 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) A lifetime.

5. What reason did Patricio Aragones give for his claim that he and the General would meet death at a tie?
(a) They are equals in dominoes.
(b) He could not best the General in dominoes.
(c) The face of each man is one side of a coin.
(d) Their faces are on boths sides of both coins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is it said that Manuela retreated to?

2. How does the General disguise his inability to speak?

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

4. The remains of the General are found:

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

(see the answer key)

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