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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 the nuncio refuses to canonize Bendicion, what does the General do?
(a) He orders him set adrift for three days, then released into the path of cruiselines.
(b) He slaps the nuncio, declares him a charlatan.
(c) He orders him executed on the spot.
(d) He cries in disbelief.

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

3. What name does Bendicion receive after the General sets up a cult in her honor?
(a) Saint Mother Bendicion Alvarado.
(b) Saint Bendicion Alvarado.
(c) Saint Bendicion Alvarado, Mother of the Nation.
(d) Saint Bendicion Alvarado of the Birds.

4. How is the Caribbean Sea reassembled?
(a) By carefully recreating the biosphere.
(b) Using a system of numbered pieces.
(c) Using the intution of clairvoyants.
(d) Using the personal memory of the General.

5. What happens during the wedding ceremony?
(a) Leticia faints from the pressures of marrying the General.
(b) Manuela Sanchez returns to seek vengeance.
(c) Leticia gives birth to Emanuel.
(d) Rebels attempt to assassinate the General with an exploding milk cart.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to popular rumor, what does Lord Kochel eat?

2. What does the Easter edict proclaim?

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

4. Where does the General get his socks?

5. Who does the U.S. send in to carry out the punishment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the significance of yellow fever to the General's position as president.

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

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

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

5. Describe the successful assassination attempt.

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

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

8. How is Bendicion Alvarado mourned?

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

10. How does the General learn how to read?

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