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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. Who does Alberto ask to see at the infirmary in Part Two, Chapter 1?
(a) Skinny Higueras
(b) Capt. Garrido
(c) Ricardo Arana
(d) Lt. Gamboa

2. Who is the lieutenant on duty that is dozing in a chair when Lt. Gamboa enters the guardhouse in Part One, Chapter 8?
(a) Lt. Garrido
(b) Lt. Pezoa
(c) Lt. Huarina
(d) Lt. Pitaluga

3. Who are “the three victims in the first section” that were late falling into line in Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) Skinny, Marcela, and Vallano
(b) Curly, the Jaguar, and the Boa
(c) Varua, Morte, and Pezoa
(d) Urioste, Nunez, and Revilla

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 history exam
(b) The Latin exam
(c) The calculus exam
(d) The chemistry exam

5. What do Alberto’s mother’s women friends come over to play every afternoon in Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) Poker
(b) Canasta
(c) Chess
(d) Bridge

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time do the narrator and his fellow cadets go into Emilio’s house after the dance lesson in Part One, Chapter 7?

2. Who does the narrator say “had come to watch the lessons, and spent the whole time cracking jokes, making insinuations, mentioning Helena’s name” in Part One, Chapter 7?

3. Where does Alberto say Skinny Higueras always waited for him when Alberto slipped out of school in Part Two, Chapter 1?

4. Who does Lt. Gamboa call from the guardhouse when he goes there in the morning in Part One, Chapter 8?

5. Where does the narrator of Part One, Chapter 5 tell his mother he’s going to have lunch with a friend?

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