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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the instructor of the physical education class that Alberto describes sneaking out of in Part Two, Chapter 1?
(a) Señor Zapata
(b) Señor Cigüeña
(c) Señor Pitaluga
(d) Señor Fernandez

2. The narrator describes a fight breaking out at the movie theater because what character refused to get rid of the bricks he was sitting on in Part One, Chapter 3?
(a) The Boa
(b) The Poet
(c) The Jaguar
(d) Cava

3. What is the name of Pluto’s cousin that “had become the girlfriend of a boy from San Isidro,” according to the narrator of Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) Rosa
(b) Carmela
(c) Marcela
(d) Sara

4. Why does the narrator say most of the cadets were in the Academy in Part One, Chapter 8?
(a) Because their families wanted to get rid of them for a while
(b) Because they had homosexual tendencies
(c) Because they were facing imprisonment or reform school
(d) Because their families were in great need for money

5. Who is described in Part Two, Chapter 4 as “a very young lieutenant, in charge of a company in the Third”?
(a) Lt. Pitaluga
(b) Lt. Huarina
(c) Lt. Ferrero
(d) Lt. Gamboa

Short Answer Questions

1. At what bakery does the narrator say Tere goes to buy bread from on weekdays in Part One, Chapter 7?

2. What cadet does the narrator of Part Two, Chapter 3 say was expelled for stealing the chemistry exam?

3. Where does the narrator suggest that he and his mother go back to in Part One, Chapter 5?

4. What month is it in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 8?

5. As Alberto contemplates his fate in the guardhouse, he thinks that he will run away with Teresa where in Part Two, Chapter 4?

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