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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do the soap operas the General and Leticia watch come from?
(a) Santiago, Chile.
(b) Puerto Rico.
(c) The nation.
(d) Santiago de Cuba.

3. How had President Lauturo Munoz risen to power?
(a) He rose to power during the eleven years of political coups and bloody rivalries.
(b) He was in league with the U.S. ambassadors against the General.
(c) He executed the General.
(d) He befriended the General in his last days and became his successor.

4. What does the narrator use to restore the look of life to the corpse?
(a) Pomegranate juice.
(b) Women's rouge and lipstick.
(c) Crimson dye.
(d) Red lacquer.

5. Who does the U.S. send in to carry out the punishment?
(a) The Navy SEALS.
(b) The U.S. Marire Corpse.
(c) Engineers from the U.S. Center for Biological War.
(d) Ambassador Ewing's nautical engineers.

6. What color are the General's socks?
(a) Grey.
(b) Pink.
(c) Purple.
(d) One black, one purple.

7. How many folios of information does Demetrius Aldous compile?
(a) 370 folios in 7 volumes.
(b) 350.
(c) 7.
(d) 7 folios in 350 volumes.

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

9. What animal does Emanuel resemble when he is born?
(a) A calf fetus.
(b) A goat.
(c) A dog.
(d) A bird.

10. What does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra bill the General for?
(a) His protection.
(b) His services as a gardener.
(c) Delivering produce.
(d) His services as an assassin.

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

12. What about the General's hands indicated he would be king?
(a) They were magnificently powerful from infancy.
(b) They were soft and regal.
(c) They were abnormally pale.
(d) There were no life lines on his palms.

13. What does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra spend his money on?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Fine foods.
(c) His fussy wife.
(d) The clothing of a prince.

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

15. What happened to the cause of Bendicion Alvarado?
(a) It was rejected because of her unchaste youth.
(b) It was postponed because of the political significance of the results.
(c) It was suspended because of the General's interference.
(d) It was suspended for insufficient proof.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the torture chambers located before they are destroyed?

2. What does the General do in honor of Leticia and the boy?

3. Not even which of the following could restore a look of authority to the General's corpse?

4. How does the town react to the news of the General's death?

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

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