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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Both as a tribute to his mother and as a joke, people begin to send the General which of the following gifts?
(a) Portraits of the General and his mother.
(b) Cages of birds.
(c) Nun's habits.
(d) Red birettas.

3. What reason did Patricio Aragones give for his claim that he and the General would meet death at a tie?
(a) Their faces are on boths sides of both coins.
(b) The face of each man is one side of a coin.
(c) They are equals in dominoes.
(d) He could not best the General in dominoes.

4. What is disguised as as vase of six sunflowers?
(a) Six poisoned flowers.
(b) Six microphones.
(c) A bomb.
(d) Six grams of cocaine.

5. Which of Bendicion Alvarado's miracles is most astonishing?
(a) Her presence calms the sea.
(b) She cures the crippled.
(c) Her body appears to be alive after her death.
(d) She causes flowers to bloom on salt flats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Poncio Daza?

2. How many lacquered bibles are there?

3. Which omen caused the General to change the date of a public appearance?

4. What reason did Benedicion Alvarado give for her housing preference?

5. Who poses as a student and sleeps with the General?

(see the answer key)

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