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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. Who argues with the captain over Alberto’s right to make allegations against the circle in Part Two, Chapter 4?
(a) Lt. Gamboa
(b) Lt. Huarina
(c) Lt. Pitaluga
(d) Lt. Ferrero

2. The narrator of Part Two, Chapter 5 says that “they say” what women “are the most beautiful in the world”?
(a) Hawaiian
(b) Chilean
(c) European
(d) North American

3. When the Jaguar is ordered by Lt. Gamboa to go to the guardhouse in Part Two, Chapter 4, he tells Curly, “If this is about the exam, a lot of people are going to” what?
(a) Go home crying to mama
(b) Get into deep water
(c) Wish they’d never been born
(d) Get expelled from this school

4. Where has Lt. Gamboa been transferred to in the Epilogue?
(a) Piura
(b) Bellavista
(c) Juliaca
(d) Moquegua

5. Ricardo’s father tells Alberto that they’ve operated on his son how many times when they meet in the halls of the infirmary in Part Two, Chapter 1?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 5

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the art and music teacher that Alberto describes in Part Two, Chapter 1?

2. Who tells Arrospide, “Don’t try to be a Pelopidas,” when the officers come to inspect the lockers of the Fifth in Part Two, Chapter 5?

3. What is revealed in Lt. Gamboa’s telegram in the Epilogue of the novel?

4. What lieutenant does Alberto insist the captain ask about the Slave’s squealing on Cava in Part Two, Chapter 4?

5. When the other cadets return to the Fifth Year bunks in Part Two, Chapter 8, Alberto tells them that he got his injuries how?

Short Essay Questions

1. What epiphany does the Jaguar come to in Part Two, Chapter 8?

2. How does the theme of secrecy relate to the character of Skinny Higueras?

3. What is the outcome for Lt. Gamboa in the Epilogue of the novel? Where is he going?

4. Who is the narrator in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 1? What does this narrator describe?

5. What does the character of Ricardo Arana represent symbolically in The Time of the Hero?

6. What does the Colonel use in order to blackmail the Poet in Part Two, Chapter 6?

7. What is Alberto’s theory regarding the death of the Slave in Part Two, Chapter 4?

8. Why does the colonel meet with the officers in Part Two, Chapter 2? What decision is reached?

9. Who is the narrator in the opening of Part Two, Chapter 3? What does this character describe?

10. Where is Alberto sent after meeting with the Colonel in Part Two? Who does he encounter here?

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