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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 the first bulletin released after the General's death declare?
(a) A serious illness has compromised the General.
(b) A slight indisposition has obliged him to cancel appearances.
(c) A security threat has caused the General to remain under close supervision.
(d) The General has requested personal time away from the people.

2. According to popular rumor, what does Lord Kochel eat?
(a) The hot guts of beheaded people.
(b) Iguana eggs.
(c) Freshly-boiled hens.
(d) Grass.

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

4. What is disguised as as vase of six sunflowers?
(a) Six grams of cocaine.
(b) Six poisoned flowers.
(c) A bomb.
(d) Six microphones.

5. What name does Death use to refer to the General?
(a) General.
(b) Nicanor.
(c) Zacarias.
(d) You.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How had President Lauturo Munoz risen to power?

3. What did the Marines bring with them during their landing in the nation?

4. What is Bendicion Alvarado's coffin filled with, to keep her body from rotting?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the General learn how to read?

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

3. Describe the General's final death.

4. Describe the encounter between the General and the school girl narrator in Chapter 6.

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

6. Describe Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra.

7. Describe the occurrence the General believes to be a miracle.

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

9. Describe the successful assassination attempt.

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

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