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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the General do in honor of Leticia and the boy?
(a) The orders the market raized and replaced by a garden with a marble cross.
(b) He dedicates another cult to the memory of his wife and son.
(c) He donates all his possession, but not his power, to the Church.
(d) He establishes a new national poetry contest.

2. Where does the General kidnap Leticia from?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) The Nation.
(c) Puerto Rico.
(d) Rome.

3. What name does Death use to refer to the General?
(a) General.
(b) You.
(c) Nicanor.
(d) Zacarias.

4. At what age does Emanuel stand, champagne glass filled with juice in hand, and discuss matters of grown-up importance?
(a) 6.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 14.

5. Where does the General get his socks?
(a) From the corpses of his enemies.
(b) From the nuns at his wife's former convent.
(c) From the private sockery of the Supreme Pontiff.
(d) From a group of school girls, commissioned to knit his footwear.

6. What happens during the wedding ceremony?
(a) Rebels attempt to assassinate the General with an exploding milk cart.
(b) Leticia faints from the pressures of marrying the General.
(c) Manuela Sanchez returns to seek vengeance.
(d) Leticia gives birth to Emanuel.

7. What happens to the clergy of the Catholic Church?
(a) They are pardoned and offered an opportunity to convert to the cult of his mother.
(b) The General orders them to march naked onto a raft.
(c) They are executed.
(d) They are flayed alive.

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

9. How long has the General been in power?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 150 years.
(d) 10 years.

10. How does the town react to the news of the General's death?
(a) Reticent.
(b) Mournful.
(c) Jubilant.
(d) Frightened.

11. Why does the General force Leticia to cancel all her public appearances?
(a) He fears an assassination attempt.
(b) He becomes jealous of her favor with the people.
(c) He believes she should spend more time with their son.
(d) He wants more time in the bedroom with her.

12. When Bendicion Alvarado's body is returned to the General, what has changed?
(a) The pink tulip is missing.
(b) The people have added tokens of the miracles that happened in her presence.
(c) Her body has been defiled.
(d) Each person has added a tribute to the mother of the Nation.

13. To whom does the General pray in his last moments?
(a) God.
(b) No one.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) His mother.

14. What does the papal nuncio say about the linen shroud?
(a) It is a fake, produced by a painter.
(b) It is proof of a miracle.
(c) It is miraculous, but not proof of sainthood.
(d) It is proof of God's divinity only.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the second bulletin released after the General's death declare?

2. In his old age, the General is compared to which animals?

3. How does the General learn to read?

4. What does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra bill the General for?

5. What does the narrator use to scrape away the layers disfiguring the General's body?

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