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

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) Mancora
(b) Potao
(c) Talara
(d) Zana

2. 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) Perico
(b) Urioste
(c) Morte
(d) Arrospide

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) Sundays
(c) Tuesdays
(d) Mondays

4. As Alberto walks from the bus station to his house in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 4, a group of small boys calls out to him. What do they ask Alberto?
(a) Are you the milk man?
(b) Where is your mother?
(c) Are you selling chocolates?
(d) Where is your little sister?

5. Who exits the meeting with the Boa in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) Curly
(b) Alberto
(c) Vallano
(d) Cava

6. 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?
(a) Rosa
(b) Carmela
(c) Sara
(d) Marcela

7. 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) Cava
(b) Marcela
(c) Rosa
(d) Carmela

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

9. How many points does Alberto say he needs for the exam in Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) 60
(b) 40
(c) 70
(d) 50

10. What does Lt. Gamboa say he always does when he is Officer of the Guard to pass the time in Part One, Chapter 8?
(a) He plays solitaire
(b) He studies
(c) He watches television
(d) He daydreams

11. Who does the narrator say “had come to watch the lessons, and spent the whole time cracking jokes, making insinuations, mentioning Helena’s name” in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) Nunez and Revilla
(b) Teresa and Marcela
(c) Paulino and Urioste
(d) Pluto and Emilio

12. Why does the narrator say most of the cadets were in the Academy in Part One, Chapter 8?
(a) Because they had homosexual tendencies
(b) Because their families wanted to get rid of them for a while
(c) Because their families were in great need for money
(d) Because they were facing imprisonment or reform school

13. At what time does Teresa say her date will be calling for her in Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) 7:00
(b) 6:00
(c) 5:00
(d) 8:00

14. How much does Paulino charge for a slug of pisco at the hideout in Part One, Chapter 5?
(a) 25 centavos
(b) 50 centavos
(c) 10 centavos
(d) 15 centavos

15. The narrator in Part One, Chapter 5 says, “The cadets admired the chaplain because they considered him” what?
(a) A religious man
(b) A faithful man
(c) An honest man
(d) A Godly man

Short Answer Questions

1. Alberto’s father suggests to Alberto’s mother that they rent a decent house where, in Part One, Chapter 4?

2. Where does the narrator suggest that he and his mother go back to in Part One, Chapter 5?

3. By what name do the elder-classmen of the academy refer to the under-classmen?

4. At what bakery does the narrator say Tere goes to buy bread from on weekdays in Part One, Chapter 7?

5. Where does the narrator say he would go on Sundays when Teresa went to visit family in Part One, Chapter 7?

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