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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator use to scrape away the layers disfiguring the General's body?
(a) Pumice stone.
(b) A flint edge.
(c) A knife blade.
(d) Fish scalers.

2. After Leticia's funeral, what does the General do to the birds?
(a) He stares at them, wondering where their voices have gone.
(b) He releases them at Benedicion's mansion.
(c) He feeds them Cantorina with an eyedropper.
(d) He smothers them one by one.

3. Benedicion Alvarado screamed in horror because the walls perpetually oozed which of the following after the banquet?
(a) Tears.
(b) Blood.
(c) Urine.
(d) A strange black substance.

4. What did the General's escort--the Guajiro Indian--carry with him in the early days of the General's reign?
(a) A bottle of rum.
(b) A cane-cutting machete.
(c) A .32 caliber.
(d) A man-eating dog.

5. What happens to the crocodiles after the sack of the palace?
(a) They are released into the wild.
(b) They are made the national reptile.
(c) They are honored as the General's personal guards.
(d) They are killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ironic thing about the hurricane?

2. What happens as a result of the Vatican's decision in the cause of Bendicion Alvarado?

3. Who is "petrified" to see the changes to the dogfight district?

4. How many enemies did the General suspect of conspiring against him?

5. What substance does the General give to Patricio Aragones as he lays dying?

(see the answer key)

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