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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the last time the General was seen in public?
(a) Before the hurricane.
(b) Before the comet.
(c) Before Leticia Nazareno's death.
(d) Before the banquet.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is Death wearing when she arrives?
(a) The General's uniform.
(b) A penitent's tunic of pita cloth.
(c) Leticia's nun's habit.
(d) Nothing.

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

9. How does Leticia legally steal from merchants at the market?
(a) At her touch, it is damaged merchandise and the merchants give it away for free.
(b) She tells the merchants to send the bill to the government.
(c) She claims it in the name of God.
(d) The General proclaims her immune from prosecution.

10. What does Ambassador Wilson bring to the General to console him?
(a) A portrait of Leticia and Emanuel.
(b) Dutch prostitutes.
(c) Candy from Baltimore and gentleman's magazines.
(d) Specialty steaks and fine wines.

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

12. Which character's death is described as a marker of the end of creation?
(a) Manuela Sanchez's.
(b) Major General Rodrigo de Aguilar's.
(c) The General's.
(d) Leticia Nazareno's.

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

14. What does the General stop to contemplate 23 times?
(a) The mystery of the city without a sea.
(b) The wonder of his rise and fall.
(c) The pesky cow he intercepts.
(d) The treachery of U.S. ambassadors.

15. What is the only condition the General places on Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra?
(a) That he not interfere with the General's sexual proclivities.
(b) That he be informed of every decision de la Barra makes.
(c) That he not disturb the garden dedicated to Leticia and Emanuel.
(d) That he be left ignorant of the man's actions.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra?

4. Where does death finally find the General?

5. Bendicion's funeral crown is made from which of the following flowers?

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