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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bendicion Alvarado's coffin filled with, to keep her body from rotting?
(a) Roses and cedar chips.
(b) Ice and saw dust.
(c) Formaldehyde and ice.
(d) Alcohol and ice.

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

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

4. When does the General finally consummate his relationship with Leticia?
(a) After they are married, in strict accordance with Leticia's beliefs.
(b) Shortly after the second anniversary of the kidnapping.
(c) Immediately, unable to resist her undefiled body.
(d) Shortly following the anniversary of her kidnapping.

5. When was the last time the General was seen in public?
(a) Before Leticia Nazareno's death.
(b) Before the comet.
(c) Before the hurricane.
(d) Before the banquet.

6. What is the first ceremony performed after Emanuel's birth?
(a) He is appointed Major General.
(b) He is baptized.
(c) He is appointed President.
(d) He is canonized.

7. Where does the General get his socks?
(a) From a group of school girls, commissioned to knit his footwear.
(b) From the nuns at his wife's former convent.
(c) From the corpses of his enemies.
(d) From the private sockery of the Supreme Pontiff.

8. What prompts the General to have all of Leticia's food inspected?
(a) A threatening note.
(b) Leticia's sudden vomiting spell.
(c) A bad omen.
(d) A fish bone in her bread.

9. According to popular rumor, what does Lord Kochel eat?
(a) Iguana eggs.
(b) The hot guts of beheaded people.
(c) Freshly-boiled hens.
(d) Grass.

10. What did the regime papers print for years before the General's death?
(a) Stories of the General's supposed magnificence.
(b) Fictionalized pictures of the General in front of civil and military audiences.
(c) Images of the nation's prosperity under the General.
(d) Images of the General carousing with the people.

11. How do Leticia and Emanuel die?
(a) They are shot from a distance by a keen marksman.
(b) They are poisoned, despite the General's inspections.
(c) A milk cart explodes inside the palace.
(d) They are attacked and eaten by dogs in the market.

12. Where are the torture chambers located before they are destroyed?
(a) The old American embassy.
(b) Along the coast of the Caribbean Sea.
(c) The old Dutch asylum,
(d) Inside the presidential palace.

13. What is Death wearing when she arrives?
(a) The General's uniform.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A penitent's tunic of pita cloth.
(d) Leticia's nun's habit.

14. How many lacquered bibles are there?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 7.
(d) 1.

15. How had President Lauturo Munoz risen to power?
(a) He was in league with the U.S. ambassadors against the General.
(b) He befriended the General in his last days and became his successor.
(c) He rose to power during the eleven years of political coups and bloody rivalries.
(d) He executed the General.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the U.S. send in to carry out the punishment?

2. What does the narrator use to restore the look of life to the corpse?

3. How does Leticia Nazareno respond when the General calls her name?

4. The General agonizes over a scrap of paper. What does it read?

5. What does the General stop to contemplate 23 times?

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