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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the buglers play their morning alarm on Saturdays, according to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) The clock tower
(b) The parade ground
(c) The General’s headquarters
(d) The latrines

2. What book does Vallano decide to “rent out” to the other cadets in Part One, Chapter 6?
(a) Hamlet
(b) To Have and Have Not
(c) Don Quixote
(d) Eleodora’s Pleasures

3. With whom does Alberto say he jumped over the wall and went to a fiesta in La Punta the previous year in Part One, Chapter 6?
(a) Morte
(b) Urioste
(c) Arrospide
(d) Perico

4. In what country is The Time of the Hero set?
(a) Argentina
(b) Mexico
(c) Peru
(d) Brazil

5. Where does Alberto’s father say he’ll send Alberto next year if he does well on his exams in Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) The Soviet Union
(b) Mexico City
(c) The United States
(d) Paris

6. What three army noncoms follow Lt. Gamboa as he orders the cadets into line in Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) Curly, the Jaguar, and the Boa
(b) Varua, Morte, and Pezoa
(c) Skinny, Marcela, and Vallano
(d) Urioste, Nunez, and Revilla

7. How many hours will Ricardo have outside the Academy on his pass after he’s revealed the person responsible for the chemistry exam theft in Part One, Chapter 6?
(a) 8
(b) 3
(c) 6
(d) 10

8. According to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 2, “this Saturday was an exception. The field exercises had been canceled because the Fifth was scheduled to take” what exam?
(a) The chemistry exam
(b) The history exam
(c) The calculus exam
(d) The Latin exam

9. Who does the narrator say “drank in secret while he was Officer of the Guard” in Part One, Chapter 8?
(a) Lt. Pitaluga
(b) Lt. Huarina
(c) Lt. Gamboa
(d) Lt. Martinez

10. What day of the week is it when Alberto returns home from the Academy in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) Sunday
(b) Thursday
(c) Saturday
(d) Tuesday

11. Where does the narrator suggest that he and his mother go back to in Part One, Chapter 5?
(a) Pucallpa
(b) Machala
(c) Chiclayo
(d) Iquitos

12. Who sleeps in the upper bunk in Cava’s room in Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) Marcela
(b) Curly
(c) Alberto
(d) Vallano

13. At what time do the narrator and his fellow cadets go into Emilio’s house after the dance lesson in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) 3:00 p.m.
(b) 1:00 p.m.
(c) 2:00 p.m.
(d) 4:00 p.m.

14. At what time does the Boa say he has to go on guard in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 1

15. The narrator says of Lt. Gamboa in Part One, Chapter 8, that he “loved the military life for exactly the same reasons that the others hated it.” What reasons are these?
(a) Money, power, and strength
(b) Discipline, rank, field exercises
(c) Paperwork, power, and discipline
(d) Corruption, hierarchy, and power

Short Answer 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?

2. What answer does Calzada receive when he asks, “When are they going to strip off his insignia?” in Part One, Chapter 8?

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

4. The narrator says in Part One, Chapter 8 that who invented some new illness every two weeks for his wife in order to get a pass?

5. 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”?

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