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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people are killed during the explosion of the milk cart?
(a) 1,499.
(b) 19.
(c) 0.
(d) 1,500.

2. What reason did Patricio Aragones give for his claim that he and the General would meet death at a tie?
(a) He could not best the General in dominoes.
(b) The face of each man is one side of a coin.
(c) Their faces are on boths sides of both coins.
(d) They are equals in dominoes.

3. What prompts the General's marriage to Leticia?
(a) Leticia becomes pregnant with Emanuel.
(b) Leticia demands marriage before sex.
(c) Manuela dies, leaving the General with only one option.
(d) Bendicion Alvarado discovers an egg with two yolks.

4. Which character's death is described as a marker of the end of creation?
(a) Major General Rodrigo de Aguilar's.
(b) Manuela Sanchez's.
(c) The General's.
(d) Leticia Nazareno's.

5. How is the presidential limo disguised?
(a) As a taxi.
(b) As a regular limo.
(c) As a military vehicle.
(d) As a milk cart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the General murder the old woman?

2. Which part of the General's corpse didn't the vultures peck?

3. What does the General flavor his water with?

4. What happens to Poncio Daza?

5. At what time did the General always begin the day?

(see the answer key)

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