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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. By what name do the elder-classmen of the academy refer to the under-classmen?
(a) Chickens
(b) Birds
(c) Dogs
(d) Rookies

2. What is the name of the military academy that Cava and the other boys attend in the novel?
(a) The Admiral Farragut Academy
(b) The Hargrave Military Academy
(c) The Leoncio Prado Military Academy
(d) The School of the Americas

3. Whose funeral is being held in Part Two, Chapter 2?
(a) Valdivieso’s
(b) Alberto Fernandez’s
(c) Ricardo Arana’s
(d) Carmela Cigüeña’s

4. 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?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(b) Franz Kafka
(c) Jean-Paul Sartre
(d) Samuel Beckett

5. The narrator says in Part One, Chapter 7, “I don’t believe in the devil but sometimes” who makes him wonder?
(a) The Slave
(b) The Poet
(c) The Boa
(d) The Jaguar

Short Answer Questions

1. Ricardo’s father tells Alberto that they’ve operated on his son how many times when they meet in the halls of the infirmary in Part Two, Chapter 1?

2. What does Alberto drink a shot of with Skinny at the bar in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 3?

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

4. Alberto sees Teresa with two girls after the last exam in Part Two, Chapter 4. Where does Teresa tell him they are going?

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

(see the answer key)

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