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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Paulino says in Part One, Chapter 5, “These two’ve been together every minute for a whole week,” when referring to Alberto and whom?
(a) The Jaguar
(b) The Boa
(c) The Poet
(d) The Slave

2. As the Boa contemplates his future after leaving the Academy in Part Two, Chapter 3, he considers that he might take who with him?
(a) Curly
(b) Skimpy
(c) Arrospide
(d) The Slave

3. The narrator says in Part One, Chapter 6 of the infirmary doctors, “they knew that if you put banana peels on your forehead for a couple of hours, your temperature would go up to about” what?
(a) 101
(b) 100
(c) 103
(d) 102

4. According to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 2, “this Saturday was an exception. The field exercises had been canceled because the Fifth was scheduled to take” what exam?
(a) The chemistry exam
(b) The Latin exam
(c) The history exam
(d) The calculus exam

5. Who is described in Part Two, Chapter 4 as “a very young lieutenant, in charge of a company in the Third”?
(a) Lt. Ferrero
(b) Lt. Pitaluga
(c) Lt. Gamboa
(d) Lt. Huarina

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator of Part One, Chapter 3 describe going to soccer games on the days when his neighbor goes to Lima with her aunt?

2. Where do Tere’s aunt and uncle live in Part One, Chapter 5?

3. Who does the narrator say reprimands Lt. Huarina in public at the Academy in Part One, Chapter 6?

4. Ricardo’s father tells Alberto that they’ve operated on his son how many times when they meet in the halls of the infirmary in Part Two, Chapter 1?

5. What is the name of the dog that the narrator describes howling all night in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 1?

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