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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 181 - 240).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Tomas's mother increasingly worried about him in Chatper Ten?
(a) She saw someone being shot the other day.
(b) She hears terrible stories of people being snatched.
(c) She thinks he is failing in school.
(d) She thinks he does not have enough money.

2. What does Tomas remember contemplating in Rome?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Redemption.

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

4. Where does Isabel ask Tomas to get a job so he can spy for the Montoneros in Chapter Ten?
(a) The detention center where torture is carried out.
(b) Peron's former office.
(c) The cafe where all the Colonels eat.
(d) The office of operations that the junta uses.

5. What is another term for Automotores?
(a) El Jardin.
(b) Verde.
(c) The Light.
(d) The Chamber.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pichuca's cleaning person?

2. What song does the Colonel start singing in Chapter Five that unsettles Tomas?

3. What does the Priest call Tomas in Chapter Thirteen?

4. What does Pichuca reveal about Nerea in Chapter Seventeen?

5. Who has the quietest personality of the group of torturers at Automotores?

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