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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Poncio Daza?
(a) He kills himself after the General rapes his wife.
(b) He is spared because he concedes to the General's wishes.
(c) He is dismembered because the General favors his wife.
(d) He takes a walk with the barefoot Indian.

2. According to Aragones, who put the General in power?
(a) The Gringoes.
(b) Aragones.
(c) The Conservatives.
(d) The English.

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

4. What do the signs in the main square read as they celebrate both the General's believed death and his discovered health?
(a) God Save the Magnificent!
(b) We Shall be Redeemed!
(c) Long Live The General!
(d) God Damns Sinners!

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bendicion Alvarado persuade the General to stay at her house a little longer?

2. How does the General kill the old woman?

3. Where does the General read of a death identical to one he dreamed about?

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

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

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