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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is giving Alberto a dance lesson in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) Nunez
(b) Pluto
(c) Revilla
(d) Babe

2. At what time does Lt. Huarina tell Ricardo to return to the Academy after Ricardo reveals the person responsible for the chemistry exam theft in Part One, Chapter 6?
(a) 9:00 p.m.
(b) 10:00 p.m.
(c) 11:00 p.m.
(d) 12:00 a.m.

3. Who does Ricardo Arana recall taking his cigarettes and money and once having urinated on him while he slept in Part One, Chapter 6?
(a) Pezoa
(b) Cava
(c) Curly
(d) Revilla

4. Lt. Huarina is said to own a small store where, in Part One, Chapter 6?
(a) Los Barrios
(b) Cajamarca
(c) Chimbote
(d) Trujillo

5. Who answers the door at Teresa’s neighbor’s house when she goes to take a bath there before her date in Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) Marcela
(b) Carmela
(c) Rosa
(d) Cava

6. Where do the members of The Circle meet in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) The rooftop
(b) The exercise fields
(c) The latrine
(d) The cave

7. How much money does the narrator borrow from Skinny in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) 3 and a half soles
(b) 4 and a half soles
(c) 1 and a half soles
(d) 2 and a half soles

8. Curly describes an earthquake that took place in what year in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) 1910
(b) 1940
(c) 1989
(d) 1972

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

10. Where does the narrator of Part One, Chapter 5 tell his mother he’s going to have lunch with a friend?
(a) In Casma
(b) In Chicuito
(c) In Huarmey
(d) In Chimbote

11. Who does the Jaguar say is taking his place on guard in Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) The Boa
(b) Curly
(c) The Slave
(d) The Poet

12. Who does Alberto say snuck off the Academy property over the wall on Monday and came back at four in the morning in Part One, Chapter 6?
(a) Nunez
(b) Perico
(c) Morte
(d) Urioste

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

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

15. The narrator of Part One, Chapter 3 opens the chapter saying “I was in Sáenz Peña and when I left I was going back to” where on foot?
(a) Tarapoto
(b) Cajamarca
(c) Bellavista
(d) Chachapoyas

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time do the narrator and his fellow cadets go into Emilio’s house after the dance lesson in Part One, Chapter 7?

2. According to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 6, the Jaguar invented the breath-holding trick, which would lead the attendant to admit one to the infirmary with symptoms of what?

3. Where does Alberto’s father say he’ll send Alberto next year if he does well on his exams in Part One, Chapter 4?

4. The narrator in Part One, Chapter 5 says, “The cadets admired the chaplain because they considered him” what?

5. What is the name of Pluto’s cousin that “had become the girlfriend of a boy from San Isidro,” according to the narrator of Part One, Chapter 7?

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