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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the first bulletin released after the General's death declare?
(a) A slight indisposition has obliged him to cancel appearances.
(b) The General has requested personal time away from the people.
(c) A serious illness has compromised the General.
(d) A security threat has caused the General to remain under close supervision.

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

3. Under which code of "law" does Leticia operate?
(a) Marital law.
(b) Catholic law.
(c) Verbal contract law.
(d) Bedroom law.

4. When the nuncio refuses to canonize Bendicion, what does the General do?
(a) He cries in disbelief.
(b) He orders him set adrift for three days, then released into the path of cruiselines.
(c) He slaps the nuncio, declares him a charlatan.
(d) He orders him executed on the spot.

5. How long has the General been in power?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) 150 years.

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

7. The General paid a man 200 pesos to do which of the following during his mother's procession?
(a) Pretend to have risen from the dead.
(b) Shoot any naysayers at the procession.
(c) Carry a child, claiming that she has been healed by Bendicion.
(d) Pretend to be a leper cured by Bendicion.

8. What adorns the General's chest, as his body lies on the banquet table?
(a) Full military regalia.
(b) A pink tulip.
(c) False medals, earned in chocolate wars invented by his toadies.
(d) A single rose.

9. How is the Caribbean Sea reassembled?
(a) Using a system of numbered pieces.
(b) By carefully recreating the biosphere.
(c) Using the personal memory of the General.
(d) Using the intution of clairvoyants.

10. What happens when Leticia touches fresh market goods?
(a) They multiply prolifically.
(b) They become State property.
(c) They increase in size.
(d) They wither or mold.

11. What happens to the clergy of the Catholic Church?
(a) They are flayed alive.
(b) They are executed.
(c) They are pardoned and offered an opportunity to convert to the cult of his mother.
(d) The General orders them to march naked onto a raft.

12. Bendicion's funeral crown is made from which of the following flowers?
(a) Orange blossoms.
(b) Roses.
(c) Orchids.
(d) Tulips.

13. What does Ambassador Eberhart give the General as a distraction from the bad business deal?
(a) A wind machine.
(b) A promise of future economic relations.
(c) A bottle of rum.
(d) Rights to visit the Caribbean Sea.

14. How does the town react to the news of the General's death?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Reticent.
(c) Jubilant.
(d) Mournful.

15. What name does Bendicion receive after the General sets up a cult in her honor?
(a) Saint Bendicion Alvarado.
(b) Saint Bendicion Alvarado, Mother of the Nation.
(c) Saint Bendicion Alvarado of the Birds.
(d) Saint Mother Bendicion Alvarado.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the General do after his mother dies?

2. What does the General do in honor of Leticia and the boy?

3. According to ambassador Fischer, how could the marines land in the nation?

4. At what age does Emanuel stand, champagne glass filled with juice in hand, and discuss matters of grown-up importance?

5. What is placed in Bendicion Alvarado's hand?

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