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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Leticia Nazareno respond when the General calls her name?
(a) She calls "Present" in a man's voice.
(b) She glares at the General.
(c) She hides behind another nun.
(d) She ignores the call until the second time she hears her name.

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

4. After both bulletins, how is the General's death finally announced?
(a) A public mourning, after which the next President is inaugurated.
(b) A public announcement declaring the General dead.
(c) Cathedral bells toll.
(d) A public celebration.

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

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

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

8. What is the first ceremony performed after Emanuel's birth?
(a) He is appointed President.
(b) He is appointed Major General.
(c) He is baptized.
(d) He is canonized.

9. Where are the torture chambers located before they are destroyed?
(a) The old Dutch asylum,
(b) Inside the presidential palace.
(c) Along the coast of the Caribbean Sea.
(d) The old American embassy.

10. What happens when the General refuses to allow U.S. troops into the nation?
(a) They invade the capitol.
(b) They haul away the Carribbean Sea.
(c) They infect the nation with yellow fever.
(d) They depose the General.

11. When the nuncio refuses to canonize Bendicion, what does the General do?
(a) He orders him set adrift for three days, then released into the path of cruiselines.
(b) He cries in disbelief.
(c) He orders him executed on the spot.
(d) He slaps the nuncio, declares him a charlatan.

12. What did the regime papers print for years before the General's death?
(a) Stories of the General's supposed magnificence.
(b) Images of the General carousing with the people.
(c) Fictionalized pictures of the General in front of civil and military audiences.
(d) Images of the nation's prosperity under the General.

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

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

15. What is the only condition the General places on Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra?
(a) That he be left ignorant of the man's actions.
(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 not interfere with the General's sexual proclivities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator use to restore the look of life to the corpse?

2. What is Death wearing when she arrives?

3. Where do the soap operas the General and Leticia watch come from?

4. What is placed in Bendicion Alvarado's hand?

5. What does Ambassador Eberhart give the General as a distraction from the bad business deal?

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