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

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

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

4. What act of state importance does Emanuel perform from his baby carriage?
(a) He performs wedding ceremonies.
(b) He holds meetings with his father's advisors.
(c) He presides over official acts as his father's representative.
(d) He declares times of martial law.

5. How long has the General been in power?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 150 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the General get his socks?

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

3. Where does death finally find the General?

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

5. When was the last time the General was seen in public?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Bendicion Alvarado mourned?

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

4. Why does Leticia always receive inferior merchandise from the market?

5. Describe the General's final death.

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

7. How does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra attempt to undermine the General?

8. What does Bendicion Alvarado try to tell the General as she is dying?

9. What happens to Monsignor Demetrius Aldous as he concludes his investigation of the General's mother?

10. Describe Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra.

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