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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. What character is described in Part One, Chapter 2 as “an excellent soccer player and his kick had tremendous force”?
(a) Revilla
(b) Morte
(c) Urioste
(d) Pezoa

2. What book does Vallano decide to “rent out” to the other cadets in Part One, Chapter 6?
(a) Eleodora’s Pleasures
(b) Don Quixote
(c) To Have and Have Not
(d) Hamlet

3. What color are the flannel pajamas that Cava wears in Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) Blue
(b) Green
(c) Red
(d) Yellow

4. Where does Alberto’s father say he’ll send Alberto next year if he does well on his exams in Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) The Soviet Union
(b) Mexico City
(c) The United States
(d) Paris

5. According to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 2, “this Saturday was an exception. The field exercises had been canceled because the Fifth was scheduled to take” what exam?
(a) The history exam
(b) The Latin exam
(c) The calculus exam
(d) The chemistry exam

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hideout where the cadets buy pisco and cigarettes from Paulino in Part One, Chapter 5?

2. Where does the narrator of Part One, Chapter 3 describe going to soccer games on the days when his neighbor goes to Lima with her aunt?

3. How many hours will Ricardo have outside the Academy on his pass after he’s revealed the person responsible for the chemistry exam theft in Part One, Chapter 6?

4. In Part One, Chapter 3, Alberto describes Skinny Higueras as one of his brother’s friends before he was drafted into the army. What is Alberto’s brother’s name?

5. On Saturdays, how long do the Fifth Year cadets have “to wash, dress, make their bunks, and fall in” after the bugle call, according to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the “military spirit” defined by Capt. Garrido in Part One, Chapter 2?

2. Describe the scene that opens Part One, Chapter 1 of the novel. Where are the main characters located, and what are they doing?

3. How is the character of Cava described by the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 1?

4. How do the Slave and the Poet differ in their relationship to manhood in the novel?

5. How does the Jaguar respond to the news of Cava’s punishment in Part One, Chapter 7? Why?

6. How does the character of Lt. Huarina compare with the other officers in the novel?

7. How has the Slave’s death been foreshadowed in Part One?

8. How is the theme of secrecy elicited symbolically in Part One, Chapter 3?

9. How is the character of Lt. Gamboa depicted in the novel? What does Gamboa represent metaphorically in the story?

10. How does the Boa relate to the theme of racism in The Time of the Hero?

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