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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Aragones, who put the General in power?
(a) The Conservatives.
(b) The Gringoes.
(c) The English.
(d) Aragones.
2. How is the lottery rigged so that the General always wins?
(a) Two thousand children control the pickings.
(b) There are no other entrants.
(c) The winning balls are weighted.
(d) The people are too afraid to enter the lottery.
3. Which smell accompanies Manuela Sanchez?
(a) Yesterday's stew.
(b) Urine.
(c) Licorice.
(d) Stale perfume.
4. What happens to the dogs of the dogfight district during the renewal?
(a) They become palace guard dogs.
(b) They are placed in shelters.
(c) Their throats are slit.
(d) They are relocated.
5. Which craft does Manuela Sanchez's mother make?
(a) Painted screens.
(b) Knit garments.
(c) Lace.
(d) Jewelry.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who lost an arm defusing a bomb intended for the General?
2. What reason did Benedicion Alvarado give for her housing preference?
3. What does Patricio Aragnoes drink in order to forget how to read and write?
4. What substance does the General give to Patricio Aragones as he lays dying?
5. Which item in the palace gives proof to the legend that bullets would pass through the General's body without harming him?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Saturno Santos come to work for the General and why must he stop?
2. Why are the wild parrots exterminated by the Secret police?
3. How does the good fishwife unwittingly prove her loyalty to the General? Describe her actions.
4. Discuss the significance of the cows in the opening scene.
5. Why does the General stop appearing in the city alongside the group of senators?
6. After the U.S. occupiers leave, why is Bendicion Alvarado unhappy?
7. How is the lottery system rigged?
8. What happens when a man's bird wins against the General's in a cockfight?
9. Describe the Caribbean Sea at the opening of Chapter 3.
10. What does the General do with the two thousand children whose continued existence would threaten the General's position as president?
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