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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the General react to the rebellion at San Jeronimo?
(a) He downs a bottle of rum and cries.
(b) He goes to the barracks unarmed.
(c) He runs away in fear.
(d) He negotiates with the dissenters.

2. How many assassination attempts did Patricio Aragones survive before he was hired by the General?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

3. What do the signs in the main square read as they celebrate both the General's believed death and his discovered health?
(a) God Damns Sinners!
(b) Long Live The General!
(c) God Save the Magnificent!
(d) We Shall be Redeemed!

4. To whom did the General give a sewing machine?
(a) Leticia Nazareno.
(b) Jacinta Morales.
(c) Matilde Peralta.
(d) Lorenza Lopez.

5. Which omen caused the General to change the date of a public appearance?
(a) The General saw a backwards comet.
(b) All the birds in the palace died.
(c) A dog died on the steps of the palace.
(d) Bendicion Alvarado found an egg with two yolks.

6. What does the General discover on "that historic October Friday"?
(a) Everyone is mourning his death.
(b) Everyone is waving red flags.
(c) Everyone is wearing red berettas.
(d) Everyone is celebrating his death.

7. What reason does Ambassador Thompson give for the Marine occupation of the Nation?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Genocide.
(c) War crimes.
(d) Cholera.

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

9. How old was the General when he died?
(a) Between 107 and 232.
(b) 2
(c) 107.
(d) Between 63 and 98.

10. The General paid the blind man 5 cents to do which of the following?
(a) Lose at chess.
(b) Recite the poems of Ruben Dario.
(c) Sing ballads from 12th century Spain.
(d) Replace all the insignia with pictures of the General.

11. What happens to the Red Cross shipments?
(a) They are seized, sold and resold by corrupt ministers.
(b) They are rejected by the General as signs of imperialism.
(c) They are welcomed as much-needed aid.
(d) They are allowed to spoil before being sent to the needy.

12. What was the motto of the national baseball team?
(a) Survival of the Fittest.
(b) All for One.
(c) First Under the General.
(d) Victory or Death.

13. Who lost an arm defusing a bomb intended for the General?
(a) Bendicion Alvarado.
(b) Poncio Daza.
(c) Patricio Aragones.
(d) General Rodrigo de Aguilar.

14. Who is "petrified" to see the changes to the dogfight district?
(a) Manuela Sanchez.
(b) The General.
(c) Benedicion Alvarado.
(d) Manuela Sanchez's mother.

15. The General is determined to wipe out every conservative regime from where to where?
(a) Bogota to Lima.
(b) Patagonia to Alaska.
(c) The Nation to China.
(d) Patagonia to Mongolia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following objects was NOT among the items bearing the General's face?

3. How long will it be until the next comet passes?

4. How is the lottery rigged so that the General always wins?

5. What does the General think is the underlying cause of rebellion?

(see the answer keys)

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