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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the General see anchored at sea?
(a) The English.
(b) The American navy.
(c) Patricio Aragones's navy.
(d) Three caravels.

2. What type of contest does the General institute?
(a) A national speech contest.
(b) A beauty contest.
(c) A shooting contest.
(d) A spelling bee.

3. Which of the following is not a means of death met by the men who sacked the Presidential Palace?
(a) A man is thrown in the moat.
(b) A man is burned alive.
(c) A man is flayed alive.
(d) A man is fed to crocodiles.

4. According to Aragones, who put the General in power?
(a) Aragones.
(b) The Gringoes.
(c) The English.
(d) The Conservatives.

5. What reason did Patricio Aragones give for his claim that he and the General would meet death at a tie?
(a) The face of each man is one side of a coin.
(b) They are equals in dominoes.
(c) Their faces are on boths sides of both coins.
(d) He could not best the General in dominoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the General think is the underlying cause of rebellion?

2. How many people are killed during the explosion of the milk cart?

3. Where does the General read of a death identical to one he dreamed about?

4. Where did Benedicion Alvarado prefer to live?

5. How many rooms does Benedicion Alvarado's mansion have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the only man to survive the meeting of the Federalist Generals and how does he survive?

2. What happens to the Defense Minister?

3. Why does the General restore the March poetry contest?

4. What happens when a man's bird wins against the General's in a cockfight?

5. Describe the General's relationship with his mother

6. How is the lottery system rigged?

7. What happens at the meeting of the Federalist Generals?

8. How does the good fishwife unwittingly prove her loyalty to the General? Describe her actions.

9. Describe the Caribbean Sea at the opening of Chapter 3.

10. Why does the General relocate his mother to a mansion in the suburbs?

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