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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 5-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lt. Gamboa receives a letter from his wife in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 6. In it, she says that who and her husband were waiting for her at the airport?
(a) Maria
(b) Ana
(c) Rosa
(d) Cristina

2. Who are “the three victims in the first section” that were late falling into line in Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) Varua, Morte, and Pezoa
(b) Curly, the Jaguar, and the Boa
(c) Skinny, Marcela, and Vallano
(d) Urioste, Nunez, and Revilla

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

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. Of the cadets at the Academy, Lt. Gamboa says in Part One, Chapter 8, “Half of them are sent here so they won’t turn out to be” what?
(a) Sissies
(b) Ladies
(c) Momma’s boys
(d) Gangsters

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in Part Two, Chapter 3 describes the Poet as having been flattened by whom in a fight?

2. What is the name of the hideout where the cadets buy pisco and cigarettes from Paulino in Part One, Chapter 5?

3. Lt. Gamboa tells the cadets in the Fifth to take attack formation and for each man to stand how far apart from the next in Part Two, Chapter 5?

4. Who does Alberto call from the busy bar in Part Two, Chapter 3?

5. When Alberto goes a second time to see his godfather in Part Two, Chapter 2, the godfather’s daughter tells Alberto that her father will be gone in the mountains for how many days?

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