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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Quevedo staring vacantly at through the window?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Swordsmen.
(c) Women.
(d) Cats.

2. What was written on the note found in the dead woman's pouch?
(a) The peak of life.
(b) Dead souls weep.
(c) For masses for your soul.
(d) Weeping kills the hybrids, laughing raises them to the roof.

3. What ethnicity does Quevedo think flows through Gongora's blood?
(a) African.
(b) Jewish.
(c) French.
(d) Arabic.

4. Where do Alatriste, Inigo and don Quevedo go to mass in this section?
(a) Las Coroado.
(b) Las Conde.
(c) Las Guzman.
(d) Las Benitas.

5. What does Sor Josefa ask God to send the king and queen?
(a) Sweetness.
(b) Humility.
(c) Male heirs.
(d) Female heirs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country does the narrator say despises Spain?

2. What is it said that Martin Saldana is not so slow in doing?

3. What is the currency of Spain in this novel?

4. How had the woman found in the sedan chair been killed?

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

(see the answer key)

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