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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On Saturdays, how long do the Fifth Year cadets have “to wash, dress, make their bunks, and fall in” after the bugle call, according to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) 5 minutes
(b) 8 minutes
(c) 10 minutes
(d) 3 minutes

2. Who exits the meeting with the Boa in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) Vallano
(b) Alberto
(c) Cava
(d) Curly

3. 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?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 8

4. What character is described in Part One, Chapter 2 as “the huskiest cadet in the first section, perhaps in the whole Academy”?
(a) Urioste
(b) Pezoa
(c) Revilla
(d) Morte

5. On what day of the week does the narrator’s neighbor go with her aunt to Lima in Part One, Chapter 3?
(a) Tuesdays
(b) Sundays
(c) Mondays
(d) Thursdays

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are the flannel pajamas that Cava wears in Part One, Chapter 1?

2. Where do the buglers play their morning alarm on Saturdays, according to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 2?

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

4. What three army noncoms follow Lt. Gamboa as he orders the cadets into line in Part One, Chapter 2?

5. The narrator notes in Part One, Chapter 2 of the Fifth Year cadets that they know there are how many minutes between the bugle player’s call and the whistle that calls them to fall in line?

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