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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. The narrator in Part One, Chapter 5 tells his mother that he would rather live with whom than his father?
(a) Uncle Pezoa
(b) Skinny Higueras
(c) Aunt Adelina
(d) Lt. Gamboa

2. The narrator in Part Two, Chapter 3 describes the Poet as having been flattened by whom in a fight?
(a) Gallo
(b) Pluto
(c) Paulino
(d) Huarina

3. What character does the narrator describe in Part One, Chapter 5 as a “half-breed” with “slanted Japanese eyes, thick Negro lips, copper-colored Indian skin, high cheekbones, lank black hair”?
(a) Paulino
(b) Perico
(c) Urioste
(d) Curly

4. The narrator of Part Two, Chapter 2 says that his godfather “lived a long way off, out by” what?
(a) The well
(b) The church
(c) The cemetery
(d) The bridge

5. The three cadets that were last to fall in line are given a choice by Lt. Gamboa for six points or what, in Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) A right angle
(b) Ten points
(c) A court-martial
(d) A left angle

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of Part Two, Chapter 3 say they’ve changed the dog’s name to that lives at the Academy?

2. Who is described in Part Two, Chapter 4 as “a very young lieutenant, in charge of a company in the Third”?

3. The narrator in Part One, Chapter 5 says, “The cadets admired the chaplain because they considered him” what?

4. 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?

5. At what time does the Boa say he has to go on guard in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 1?

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