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

2. 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.

3. How had the General's government marked those suspected of nonconformity?
(a) A yellow X on the wall.
(b) A yellow flag on the house.
(c) A red S on the door.
(d) A red circle on the door.

4. The General agonizes over a scrap of paper. What does it read?
(a) My name is Zacarias.
(b) God damns sinners.
(c) The General is dead.
(d) God save the Maginificent.

5. What is Demetrius Aldous's nickname?
(a) Pretty Boy.
(b) The Nuncio.
(c) Miss Vatican.
(d) The Eritrene.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens when Leticia touches fresh market goods?

3. What does Ambassador Wilson bring to the General to console him?

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

5. What does the General stop to contemplate 23 times?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of his life, how does the General feel about power?

2. How does the General learn how to read?

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

4. How does Leticia force the General to marry her?

5. Describe the General's final death.

6. How does Leticia Nazareno's relationship with the General begin?

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

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

9. Why does the General's plan to overthrow the U.S. forces fail?

10. What does Monsignor Demetrius Aldous discover about Bendicion Alvarado?

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