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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 prompts the General to have all of Leticia's food inspected?
(a) Leticia's sudden vomiting spell.
(b) A threatening note.
(c) A bad omen.
(d) A fish bone in her bread.

2. What happened to the cause of Bendicion Alvarado?
(a) It was suspended for insufficient proof.
(b) It was suspended because of the General's interference.
(c) It was postponed because of the political significance of the results.
(d) It was rejected because of her unchaste youth.

3. What about the General's hands indicated he would be king?
(a) They were soft and regal.
(b) They were abnormally pale.
(c) They were magnificently powerful from infancy.
(d) There were no life lines on his palms.

4. What happens when the General refuses to allow U.S. troops into the nation?
(a) They depose the General.
(b) They infect the nation with yellow fever.
(c) They haul away the Carribbean Sea.
(d) They invade the capitol.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the nuncio refuses to canonize Bendicion, what does the General do?

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

3. According to ambassador Fischer, how could the marines land in the nation?

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

5. Why does the General force Leticia to cancel all her public appearances?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are the creditors treated when they arrive at the palace?

3. How does the General learn how to read?

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

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

6. Describe Jose Ignacio Saenz de la Barra.

7. Describe the General's final death.

8. Why does the General order the Church and its clergy to be expelled from the nation and how is this accomplished?

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

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

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