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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Revilla
(b) Cava
(c) Pezoa
(d) Curly

2. What character is described in Part One, Chapter 2 as “the huskiest cadet in the first section, perhaps in the whole Academy”?
(a) Revilla
(b) Urioste
(c) Pezoa
(d) Morte

3. On Saturdays, how long do the Fifth Year cadets have “to wash, dress, make their bunks, and fall in” after the bugle call, according to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) 10 minutes
(b) 8 minutes
(c) 3 minutes
(d) 5 minutes

4. What color are the flannel pajamas that Cava wears in Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) Blue
(b) Yellow
(c) Red
(d) Green

5. What number does the Jaguar call out after the roll of dice in the opening of Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) 8
(b) 7
(c) 3
(d) 4

6. The narrator of Part One, Chapter 5 says that “Tere went to have lunch on weekdays with some relatives who lived near her school” where?
(a) In Mexico City
(b) In Lima
(c) In Medio Mundo
(d) In Barranca

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

8. Where does the narrator say he would go on Sundays when Teresa went to visit family in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) Juliaca
(b) Moquegua
(c) The Bellavista Plaza
(d) Barranco

9. 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 were in great need for money
(c) Because they were facing imprisonment or reform school
(d) Because their families wanted to get rid of them for a while

10. 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 United States
(b) Paris
(c) The Soviet Union
(d) Mexico City

11. With whom does Teresa say she’s got a date when talking with her aunt in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) Porfirio Cava
(b) Juan Martinez
(c) Ricardo Arana
(d) Skinny Higueras

12. 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) Discipline, rank, field exercises
(b) Corruption, hierarchy, and power
(c) Money, power, and strength
(d) Paperwork, power, and discipline

13. 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) Arrospide
(c) Perico
(d) Urioste

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

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

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. Vallano asks Alberto if he attended what academy in Part One, Chapter 6?

3. Paulino says in Part One, Chapter 5, “These two’ve been together every minute for a whole week,” when referring to Alberto and whom?

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?

5. 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?

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