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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Not even which of the following could restore a look of authority to the General's corpse?
(a) His ring.
(b) The glass eyes.
(c) His spurs.
(d) His uniform.

3. Which group comes to investigate the disappearance of the children?
(a) The U.S. Marines.
(b) The League of Generals.
(c) The League of Nations.
(d) The United Nations.

4. Why does the General murder the old woman?
(a) So that no one would know the circumstances of his death.
(b) Because she threatened to expose him.
(c) In order to silence his mother.
(d) Because she knew about the two thousand children.

5. The General agonizes over a scrap of paper. What does it read?
(a) God save the Maginificent.
(b) God damns sinners.
(c) My name is Zacarias.
(d) The General is dead.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Bendicion Alvarado's coffin filled with, to keep her body from rotting?

5. What about the General's hands indicated he would be king?

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