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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 121 - 180).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Gringo doing a favor for in Chapter Five?
(a) His own mother.
(b) The Priest.
(c) Rubio.
(d) The Colonel.

2. What does Tomas remember is amplified when one is hooded?
(a) The feel of rain.
(b) The itchiness of a bug crawling on one's skin.
(c) The sounds of one's own body.
(d) The taste of food.

3. What does the Colonel sometimes call Tomas in Part II?
(a) Hermano.
(b) Carlitos.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Joder.

4. What does the Colonel ask Tomas in Chapter Nine that alarms him?
(a) Where his siblings are.
(b) Why he does not have more friends his own age.
(c) Why he is so poor.
(d) Why he lives in a big house that it seems he can not really afford.

5. Where did Tomas used to go with the Colonel to buy meat?
(a) The supermarket in Buena Vista.
(b) The small shop in Correal Negra.
(c) The corner shop in Rellenos.
(d) The butcher shop on Juncal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Priest used to call the torture room?

2. In Chapter Twelve, what method of torture makes its first appearance at Automotores?

3. Why does Tomas give Isabel the Priest's license plate number?

4. What kind of cups do Isabel and Tomas drink out of in Chapter Twelve?

5. What is Tomas's Americanized fake last name?

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