View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who lost an arm defusing a bomb intended for the General?
(a) Bendicion Alvarado.
(b) Patricio Aragones.
(c) Poncio Daza.
(d) General Rodrigo de Aguilar.

2. How much do Aguilar and Norton pay the false leper to assassinate the General?
(a) 25,000 pesos.
(b) 50,000 pesos, cut in half.
(c) Nothing.
(d) 50,000 pesos.

3. How does the General react to the rebellion at San Jeronimo?
(a) He downs a bottle of rum and cries.
(b) He goes to the barracks unarmed.
(c) He runs away in fear.
(d) He negotiates with the dissenters.

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

5. Benedicion Alvarado screamed in horror because the walls perpetually oozed which of the following after the banquet?
(a) Urine.
(b) A strange black substance.
(c) Blood.
(d) Tears.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the General's escort--the Guajiro Indian--carry with him in the early days of the General's reign?

2. Which of the following objects was NOT among the items bearing the General's face?

3. Who sends the telegram which is kept from the General's sights?

4. How many bars, bolts and locks does the General fasten before urinating on the portable latrine?

5. What happens to the crocodiles after the sack of the palace?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 257 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample