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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. Which of the following is NOT a punishment that Franco's sisters must endure?
(a) Having their dresses pulled over their heads in public.
(b) Watching their husbands' excecutions.
(c) Being starved.
(d) Being publically whipped.

2. Whose spirit haunts Ella into her old age?
(a) The Brazilian soldier.
(b) Franco.
(c) Maria.
(d) Her dead daughter.

3. Who finds Maria Olivia's dead body?
(a) Pancho.
(b) Ella.
(c) Frederico.
(d) Dona Ines.

4. When Franco escapes the fall of Piribebuy, how many men are in his ragtag army?
(a) 1000.
(b) 100.
(c) 5000.
(d) 500.

5. When Ella returns to Paris, where does she hear that Princess Mathilde is living?
(a) Croatia.
(b) Brussels.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Nice.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Paraguayan men escape the battle against Brazil in Riachuelto?

2. How does Dona Dolores' husband die?

3. Why do the Paraguayan forces refuse to fight alongside the indigenous Indians of the land?

4. How many Brazilian steamers arrive in Asuncion on the day that the people begin to riot?

5. What have the Lopez children been forced to leave behind as they flee to San Fernando?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Maria Olivia after the doctor realizes she is ill?

2. What happens when Ella and Padre Fidel Maiz visit the statues at Caacupe?

3. What happens when Franco foolishly loses 6,000 men in the marshes of Humaita?

4. What happens when the entire Paraguayan fleet is sent to capture the Brazilian fleet in Riacheulto?

5. How does General Diaz die?

6. How does Franco die?

7. What does Dr. Mastermind do upon his release from prison?

8. What happens when Ella and her children are sent to relocate to the small town of Pikysyry?

9. What reaction waves through the women of Paraguay when Franco demands that they hand over their jewelry in support of the war against Brazil?

10. What fate befalls Alonzo Taylor's family after he escapes on a British ship?

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