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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does the narrator use to scrape away the layers disfiguring the General's body?
(a) Fish scalers.
(b) A knife blade.
(c) A flint edge.
(d) Pumice stone.

3. Where does death finally find the General?
(a) His chambers.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) On the balcony.
(d) In the courtyard.

4. How is the Caribbean Sea reassembled?
(a) Using the personal memory of the General.
(b) Using the intution of clairvoyants.
(c) Using a system of numbered pieces.
(d) By carefully recreating the biosphere.

5. How many lacquered bibles are there?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what age does Emanuel stand, champagne glass filled with juice in hand, and discuss matters of grown-up importance?

3. From what are the lepers under the rose bushes dying?

4. Where does the General sit as the comet passes over?

5. Why does the General force Leticia to cancel all her public appearances?

(see the answer key)

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