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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Benedicion Alvarado prefer to live?
(a) In the city.
(b) In the grand room.
(c) On the outdoor patio.
(d) In the servants' quarters.

2. Where do the soap operas the General and Leticia watch come from?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Santiago de Cuba.
(c) Santiago, Chile.
(d) The nation.

3. Whose husband does the General claim to have retrieved for her?
(a) Bendicion Alvarado.
(b) Leticia Nazareno.
(c) Manuela Sanchez.
(d) Matilde Peralta.

4. How long will it be until the next comet passes?
(a) 75 years.
(b) 150 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) A lifetime.

5. 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 dedicates another cult to the memory of his wife and son.
(c) He donates all his possession, but not his power, to the Church.
(d) He establishes a new national poetry contest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which item in the palace gives proof to the legend that bullets would pass through the General's body without harming him?

2. Which animal part are the General's hands compared to?

3. What prompts the General's marriage to Leticia?

4. Where do the wild parrots learn the song mocking the General?

5. How old was the General when he died?

(see the answer key)

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