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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 sleeps face-down next to her body.
(b) He weeps for 13 days.
(c) He attempts to revive her for hours.
(d) He calls on the local priest to give her last rites.

2. Who was the only general to not consume alcohol?
(a) Jacinto Algarabia.
(b) The General.
(c) Narisco Lopez.
(d) Saturno Santos.

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

4. What prompts the General to have all of Leticia's food inspected?
(a) Leticia's sudden vomiting spell.
(b) A threatening note.
(c) A fish bone in her bread.
(d) A bad omen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator use to scrape away the layers disfiguring the General's body?

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

3. Where does the General kidnap Leticia from?

4. How old was the General when he died?

5. How is the presidential limo disguised?

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