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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ambassador Eberhart give the General as a distraction from the bad business deal?
(a) A wind machine.
(b) A promise of future economic relations.
(c) Rights to visit the Caribbean Sea.
(d) A bottle of rum.

2. When does the first cow invade the palace?
(a) An October afternoon.
(b) Right before the General's death.
(c) The narrator doesn't tell us.
(d) Right after the General's death.

3. Which of Bendicion Alvarado's miracles is most astonishing?
(a) Her presence calms the sea.
(b) She cures the crippled.
(c) Her body appears to be alive after her death.
(d) She causes flowers to bloom on salt flats.

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

5. How many enemies did the General suspect of conspiring against him?
(a) 19.
(b) 14.
(c) 21.
(d) 6.

6. What is disguised as as vase of six sunflowers?
(a) A bomb.
(b) Six poisoned flowers.
(c) Six grams of cocaine.
(d) Six microphones.

7. Where do the armed forces maintain order during the investigation of Bendicion's life?
(a) The Apostolic Nunciature.
(b) The Presidential Palace.
(c) Bendicion Alvarado's mansion.
(d) The capitol city.

8. What is Demetrius Aldous's nickname?
(a) The Nuncio.
(b) Miss Vatican.
(c) The Eritrene.
(d) Pretty Boy.

9. How did the General rise to power?
(a) In a single-handed display of military prowess.
(b) By being the only reasonable candidate.
(c) By using his mother in his political campaigning.
(d) With the help of the English.

10. What does the Easter edict proclaim?
(a) All produce in the market is subject to confiscation by Leticia.
(b) All clergy are welcome within the nation.
(c) No one can be tried for a difference in opinion.
(d) Political opinions are to be strictly regulated and censored unless they comply with the party line.

11. How does the General learn to read?
(a) He teaches himself from a primer he finds among Leticia's things.
(b) He learned how to read as a boy.
(c) The ability to read comes to him after a dream of Bendicion Alvarado.
(d) Leticia gives him lessons.

12. What does the first bulletin released after the General's death declare?
(a) The General has requested personal time away from the people.
(b) A slight indisposition has obliged him to cancel appearances.
(c) A security threat has caused the General to remain under close supervision.
(d) A serious illness has compromised the General.

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

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

15. Which man has the gall to win at dominoes against the General without permission?
(a) Emanuel.
(b) Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra.
(c) Leticia Nazareno's ghost.
(d) General Rodrigo de Aguilar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Death use to refer to the General?

2. In a sack of what seems like coconuts, what does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra deliver to the General?

3. How is the Caribbean Sea reassembled?

4. The General, in the "feminine splendor" of his death, is compared to which public figure?

5. Convinced of his mother's holiness, the General writes to which city to begin the canonization process?

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