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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Bendicion Alvarado persuade the General to stay at her house a little longer?
(a) She feigns a stroke.
(b) She kills and cooks a fresh hen.
(c) She prepares a calabash.
(d) She begs and cries.

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

4. How does the General react to the rebellion at San Jeronimo?
(a) He runs away in fear.
(b) He negotiates with the dissenters.
(c) He goes to the barracks unarmed.
(d) He downs a bottle of rum and cries.

5. How is the lottery rigged so that the General always wins?
(a) Two thousand children control the pickings.
(b) The people are too afraid to enter the lottery.
(c) The winning balls are weighted.
(d) There are no other entrants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the General kidnap Leticia from?

2. Where is it said that Manuela retreated to?

3. What happened to the cause of Bendicion Alvarado?

4. Both as a tribute to his mother and as a joke, people begin to send the General which of the following gifts?

5. Convinced of his mother's holiness, the General writes to which city to begin the canonization process?

(see the answer key)

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