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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Inigo feign when he is asked to name names?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Memory loss.
(c) Confusion and distress.
(d) Love and tenderness.

2. What does the narrator say has quickened the constable and Diego's thirst?
(a) Bull running.
(b) The hot sun.
(c) The pretty women.
(d) Verbal sparring.

3. Which character does Inigo find mortally wounded?
(a) Luis de la Cruz.
(b) Vicente de la Cruz.
(c) Alatriste.
(d) Quevedo.

4. What is it said that Martin Saldana is not so slow in doing?
(a) Drawing a weapon.
(b) Chatting up women.
(c) Drinking a beer.
(d) Hurling an insult.

5. Where does Inigo presume they are taking him?
(a) To the dungeons of the Holy Office.
(b) To the Covent prison.
(c) To the king's chambers.
(d) To the Inquisition torture room.

6. What is the first thing that happens to Inigo in the dungeons?
(a) He is given food and water.
(b) He is stripped and searched.
(c) He is hit on the head and stamped on.
(d) He is strapped to a rack.

7. What animal does the author compare to the pace the chief constable sets about his task?
(a) An ox.
(b) A tortoise.
(c) A bull.
(d) A sheep.

8. What had Alatriste told Inigo to do once he had opened the side door?
(a) Wait in the coach.
(b) Return home.
(c) Guard the door.
(d) Enter the convent.

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

10. What is the name of Conde de Olivares' wife?
(a) Teresa de Guzman.
(b) Philipa Esteban.
(c) Esther Benitas.
(d) Marie Cornette.

11. Whom do the Domincans ask Inigo about?
(a) Alatriste.
(b) Salgando.
(c) Elvira.
(d) Vicente.

12. Who, other than Alatriste, examines the church's exterior wall?
(a) De la Cruz'z youngest son.
(b) De la Cruz's eldest son.
(c) Inigo.
(d) De Olivares.

13. What does the narrator say the captain had cleaned during the night?
(a) His sword.
(b) His pistols.
(c) His dagger.
(d) His shoes.

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

15. For what two worlds does the author say Madris is the capital?
(a) The old and the new.
(b) The exciting and the boring.
(c) The rich and the poor.
(d) The political and the artistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Alatriste, Inigo and don Quevedo go to mass in this section?

2. Which famous book did Louis Hurtado translate?

3. The dead woman's head dress and gown lend her the look of __________.

4. What was written on the note found in the dead woman's pouch?

5. What is the title of Chapter 4?

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