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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bendicion's funeral crown is made from which of the following flowers?
(a) Orange blossoms.
(b) Roses.
(c) Orchids.
(d) Tulips.

2. 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.

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

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

5. What is placed in Bendicion Alvarado's hand?
(a) A pink silk tulip.
(b) A fine oriole.
(c) A pink live tulip.
(d) Her finest oriole painting.

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

7. The General, in the "feminine splendor" of his death, is compared to which public figure?
(a) The Virgin Mary,
(b) A dead pope.
(c) His own dead mother.
(d) The Queen Mother.

8. What happens to Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra?
(a) He becomes the General's second in command and proceeds to terrorize the nation under the General's orders.
(b) He overthrows the General on a campaign of pure terror.
(c) He is castrated and driven from the nation naked.
(d) He is beaten to a pulp and strung up from a lamppost with his testicles in his mouth.

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

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

11. Who poses as a student and sleeps with the General?
(a) Cecilia.
(b) A waterfront prostitute.
(c) Otilia.
(d) Leticia Nazareno.

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

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

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

15. 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) Images of the nation's prosperity under the General.
(d) Fictionalized pictures of the General in front of civil and military audiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to ambassador Fischer, how could the marines land in the nation?

2. What prompts the General to have all of Leticia's food inspected?

3. How does Leticia legally steal from merchants at the market?

4. How had President Lauturo Munoz risen to power?

5. How had the General's government marked those suspected of nonconformity?

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