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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Benedicion Alvarado prefer to live?
(a) In the grand room.
(b) In the servants' quarters.
(c) On the outdoor patio.
(d) In the city.

2. Which of the following is NOT something General Rodrigo de Aguilar has in common with Ambassador Norton?
(a) A weapons smuggling enterprise.
(b) Fencing.
(c) Dutch prostitutes.
(d) A predilection for Puerto Rican rum.

3. How is the lottery rigged so that the General always wins?
(a) The people are too afraid to enter the lottery.
(b) Two thousand children control the pickings.
(c) The winning balls are weighted.
(d) There are no other entrants.

4. When does the General renovate the dogfight district?
(a) Under the cover of night.
(b) In broad daylight.
(c) 1 hour each day in the afternoon.
(d) During the winter.

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

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

7. How does the General kill the old woman?
(a) He strangles her with a strap from his spur.
(b) He poisons her food.
(c) He breaks her neck.
(d) He throws her to the man-eating dogs.

8. How are the two thousand children transported from the palace?
(a) In boxcars late at night.
(b) In milk carts, disguised as peasants.
(c) In a barge.
(d) In the presidential limo, four-by-four.

9. When does the comet pass by Manuela Sanchez's house?
(a) 3:05.
(b) 7:01.
(c) 11:06.
(d) 9:42.

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

11. How many bars, bolts and locks does the General fasten before urinating on the portable latrine?
(a) 2 bars, 2 bolts, 4 locks.
(b) 4 of each.
(c) 1 bar, 2 bolts, 3 locks.
(d) 3 of each.

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

13. According to rumor, what determined the General's lifespan?
(a) The cycles of the comet.
(b) The phases of the moon.
(c) Human time.
(d) The tides of the sea.

14. Which of the following objects was NOT among the items bearing the General's face?
(a) Stamps.
(b) Condoms.
(c) Coins.
(d) Cereal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a means of death met by the men who sacked the Presidential Palace?

2. Why does the General murder the old woman?

3. The General paid the blind man 5 cents to do which of the following?

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

5. How many maids did Bendicion Alvarado receive?

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