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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Capt. Garrido
(b) Lt. Pitaluga
(c) Lt. Gamboa
(d) Lt. Huarina

2. Whose image does Alberto try to remember as he unbuttons his pants at the hideout in Part One, Chapter 5?
(a) Carmela’s
(b) Pretty Face’s
(c) Marcela’s
(d) Golden Toes’s

3. In Part One, Chapter 3, Alberto describes Skinny Higueras as one of his brother’s friends before he was drafted into the army. What is Alberto’s brother’s name?
(a) Curly
(b) Perico
(c) Nunez
(d) Ricardo

4. With whom does Teresa say she’s got a date when talking with her aunt in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) Juan Martinez
(b) Skinny Higueras
(c) Porfirio Cava
(d) Ricardo Arana

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What character is described in Part One, Chapter 2 as “the huskiest cadet in the first section, perhaps in the whole Academy”?

2. Who is giving Alberto a dance lesson in Part One, Chapter 7?

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?

4. On what day of the week does the narrator’s neighbor go with her aunt to Lima in Part One, Chapter 3?

5. At whose house is the party going to be tomorrow, according to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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