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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many bars, bolts and locks does the General fasten before urinating on the portable latrine?
(a) 3 of each.
(b) 1 bar, 2 bolts, 3 locks.
(c) 4 of each.
(d) 2 bars, 2 bolts, 4 locks.

2. Whose husband does the General claim to have retrieved for her?
(a) Matilde Peralta.
(b) Bendicion Alvarado.
(c) Manuela Sanchez.
(d) Leticia Nazareno.

3. What happens to the crocodiles after the sack of the palace?
(a) They are released into the wild.
(b) They are honored as the General's personal guards.
(c) They are made the national reptile.
(d) They are killed.

4. Patricio Aragones proclaimed the General president of _________.
(a) The Nation.
(b) The world.
(c) The Caribbean.
(d) Nobody.

5. According to rumor, what determined the General's lifespan?
(a) The cycles of the comet.
(b) The phases of the moon.
(c) Human time.
(d) The tides of the sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the General murder the old woman?

2. At what time does Major General Rodrigo de Aguilar arrive at the banquet?

3. The General is determined to wipe out every conservative regime from where to where?

4. How does Patricio Aragones die?

5. In which month was the Presidential Palace inaugurated?

(see the answer key)

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