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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 does Ambassador Eberhart give the General as a distraction from the bad business deal?
(a) A bottle of rum.
(b) A promise of future economic relations.
(c) Rights to visit the Caribbean Sea.
(d) A wind machine.

2. What did the regime papers print for years before the General's death?
(a) Images of the nation's prosperity under the General.
(b) Stories of the General's supposed magnificence.
(c) Images of the General carousing with the people.
(d) Fictionalized pictures of the General in front of civil and military audiences.

3. When he sees the cow, what does the General immediately remember?
(a) The cows that appeared on the lawn on the day of the invasion.
(b) The way his son resembled a calf fetus at birth.
(c) Cow is spelled with a C.
(d) The assassination attempt involving the milk cart.

4. What is the only condition the General places on Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra?
(a) That he not interfere with the General's sexual proclivities.
(b) That he not disturb the garden dedicated to Leticia and Emanuel.
(c) That he be left ignorant of the man's actions.
(d) That he be informed of every decision de la Barra makes.

5. Who was Delfina Moscote?
(a) A milk vendor.
(b) A woman interested in the General.
(c) A winner of the March poetry festival.
(d) A breeder of jaguar hounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the first cow invade the palace?

2. What is placed in Bendicion Alvarado's hand?

3. How many folios of information does Demetrius Aldous compile?

4. What name does Bendicion receive after the General sets up a cult in her honor?

5. Not even which of the following could restore a look of authority to the General's corpse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does the General learn how to read?

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

10. Describe the successful assassination attempt.

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