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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say is eating Spain's heart?
(a) Foreigners.
(b) Crime.
(c) Ulcers.
(d) Rats.

2. Whom does the narrator meet on the top steps when he goes out onto the hall?
(a) Esteban.
(b) Arcabuz.
(c) De Quevedo.
(d) Reverte.

3. How had the woman found in the sedan chair been killed?
(a) She was strangled.
(b) She was stabbed.
(c) She was shot.
(d) She had been drowned.

4. Which famous book did Louis Hurtado translate?
(a) Auto de Fe.
(b) Funny Bones.
(c) Palmerin of England.
(d) The Pilgrim.

5. Who found the chief constable his current position in the police force?
(a) His father-in-law.
(b) His mother.
(c) His step-father.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had steel flashed like in the ugly scuffle?

2. What does the narrator hear fine ladies and gentlemen saying as they step out of the plaza?

3. What did Diego Alatriste enlist as in the army?

4. Captain Cuesta is deaf to _____________.

5. What does Sor Josefa have a reputation at court for being?

(see the answer key)

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