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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. 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 executed the General.
(c) He befriended the General in his last days and became his successor.
(d) He was in league with the U.S. ambassadors against the General.

2. Under which code of "law" does Leticia operate?
(a) Catholic law.
(b) Bedroom law.
(c) Verbal contract law.
(d) Marital law.

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

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

5. What does the General do in honor of Leticia and the boy?
(a) He establishes a new national poetry contest.
(b) He dedicates another cult to the memory of his wife and son.
(c) The orders the market raized and replaced by a garden with a marble cross.
(d) He donates all his possession, but not his power, to the Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the papal nuncio say about the linen shroud?

2. What does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra spend his money on?

3. What does the Easter edict proclaim?

4. Where does the General kidnap Leticia from?

5. How long has the General been in power?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is actually running the government by the end of Chapter 5?

2. How does the General defeat Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra's attempted coup?

3. How does Monsignor Demetrius Aldous investigate Bendicion Alvarado for sainthood?

4. Describe the successful assassination attempt.

5. Describe the occurrence the General believes to be a miracle.

6. How does the General decide to restore the Church to the nation?

7. How does the General learn how to read?

8. Describe the encounter between the General and the school girl narrator in Chapter 6.

9. Describe the circumstances under which the General meets Leticia Nazareno.

10. Explain how the Caribbean Sea becomes U.S. property.

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