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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. Where does the narrator suggest that he and his mother go back to in Part One, Chapter 5?
(a) Pucallpa
(b) Machala
(c) Chiclayo
(d) Iquitos

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

3. Whose quote opens Part Two of the novel (“I’m twenty years old. Don’t let anyone tell me it is the most beautiful period of life.”)?
(a) Jean-Paul Sartre’s
(b) Paul Nizan’s
(c) Lord Byron’s
(d) Enrico Salazar’s

4. Who does Lt. Gamboa call from the guardhouse when he goes there in the morning in Part One, Chapter 8?
(a) His brother
(b) His sister
(c) His wife
(d) His mother

5. What character is described in Part One, Chapter 2 as “an excellent soccer player and his kick had tremendous force”?
(a) Pezoa
(b) Revilla
(c) Urioste
(d) Morte

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Skinny tells Alberto in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 3 that the narrator has a nephew who must be about what age by now?

3. At what time does Lt. Huarina tell Ricardo to return to the Academy after Ricardo reveals the person responsible for the chemistry exam theft in Part One, Chapter 6?

4. The narrator describes Alberto as getting off the bus at what stop in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 4?

5. The narrator says in Part One, Chapter 8 that who invented some new illness every two weeks for his wife in order to get a pass?

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