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

2. When does the General finally consummate his relationship with Leticia?
(a) Shortly after the second anniversary of the kidnapping.
(b) Immediately, unable to resist her undefiled body.
(c) After they are married, in strict accordance with Leticia's beliefs.
(d) Shortly following the anniversary of her kidnapping.

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

4. How do Leticia and Emanuel die?
(a) They are attacked and eaten by dogs in the market.
(b) They are poisoned, despite the General's inspections.
(c) A milk cart explodes inside the palace.
(d) They are shot from a distance by a keen marksman.

5. Convinced of his mother's holiness, the General writes to which city to begin the canonization process?
(a) Chile.
(b) Bogota.
(c) Rome.
(d) Patagonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he sees the cow, what does the General immediately remember?

2. Where are the torture chambers located before they are destroyed?

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

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

5. What is the first ceremony performed after Emanuel's birth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain the conditions under which Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra is allowed to operate the torture chamber.

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

4. After the Papal Nuncio decides that the event was not a miracle, what happens to him?

5. Describe the successful assassination attempt.

6. After he has finished with the school girl, how does the General deal with her?

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

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

9. Describe the General's final death.

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

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