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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. 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?
(a) Potao
(b) Zana
(c) Talara
(d) Mancora

2. What color are the flannel pajamas that Cava wears in Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) Blue
(b) Green
(c) Red
(d) Yellow

3. During the fight at the movie theater, who does the narrator of Part One, Chapter 3 say hit him “so hard in the belly I couldn’t breathe”?
(a) Revilla
(b) Pezoa
(c) Varua
(d) Nunez

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. Alberto’s father suggests to Alberto’s mother that they rent a decent house where, in Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) Miraflores
(b) El Salvador
(c) Santa Anita
(d) Lurigancho

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the morning wind springing up where in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 2?

2. The quote that opens Part One, Chapter 1 (“We play the part of heroes because we’re cowards, the part of saints because we’re wicked”) is written by whom?

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

5. What is Alberto’s last name in the novel?

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