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

2. What does Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra spend his money on?
(a) Fine foods.
(b) The clothing of a prince.
(c) His fussy wife.
(d) Prostitutes.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What garment does the General wear in mourning?

2. How had the General's government dealt with petty criminals?

3. How many lacquered bibles are there?

4. How does the town react to the news of the General's death?

5. What is disguised as as vase of six sunflowers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the first assassination attempt against the General's wife and son.

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

3. How does the General learn how to read?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What are the contents of the sack which appears to be full of coconuts?

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