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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The young lieutenant who calls for Alberto in Part Two, Chapter 4 tells him to go to the office of his Year and report to whom?
(a) Lt. Gamboa
(b) Capt. Garrido
(c) Lt. Huarina
(d) Lt. Pitaluga

2. Who does Alberto ask to see at the infirmary in Part Two, Chapter 1?
(a) Skinny Higueras
(b) Ricardo Arana
(c) Capt. Garrido
(d) Lt. Gamboa

3. The narrator in Part Two, Chapter 3 describes the Poet as having been flattened by whom in a fight?
(a) Gallo
(b) Paulino
(c) Pluto
(d) Huarina

4. How many years have passed since Lt. Gamboa was a cadet and went to the movies with Rosa every Sunday in Part Two, Chapter 8?
(a) 3
(b) 8
(c) 5
(d) 10

5. When Alberto goes to the dark, dirty bar to look for Skinny, Skinny defends Alberto against a drunk by telling him that Alberto is his what in Part Two, Chapter 2?
(a) Cousin
(b) Nephew
(c) Brother
(d) Son

6. What is revealed in Lt. Gamboa’s telegram in the Epilogue of the novel?
(a) His son was born two hours ago
(b) His daughter was born two hours ago
(c) His wife has died in labor
(d) His wife has given birth to identical twins

7. Who does the Colonel put in charge of transportation for the cadet’s funeral in Part Two, Chapter 2?
(a) Lt. Fernandez
(b) Lt. Huarina
(c) Lt. Pitaluga
(d) Lt. Gamboa

8. How long ago does Alberto say that Teresa came to live next door to him in Part Two, Chapter 4?
(a) 1 year ago
(b) 2 years ago
(c) 4 years ago
(d) 3 years ago

9. When the other cadets return to the Fifth Year bunks in Part Two, Chapter 8, Alberto tells them that he got his injuries how?
(a) He was hit by a car
(b) He was in a train accident
(c) The Jaguar hit him
(d) He was kicked by a horse

10. The captain tells Lt. Gamboa in the Epilogue that with his new assignment he can now visit where when he goes on leave?
(a) Lima
(b) Piura
(c) Arequipa
(d) Moquegua

11. Who is the art and music teacher that Alberto describes in Part Two, Chapter 1?
(a) Señor Zapata
(b) Señor Arana
(c) Señor Garrido
(d) Señor Cigüeña

12. Lt. Gamboa tells the cadets in the Fifth to take attack formation and for each man to stand how far apart from the next in Part Two, Chapter 5?
(a) 10 yards
(b) 20 yards
(c) 5 yards
(d) 15 yards

13. What does Alberto buy as a gift for Teresa after he’s done the robbery with Skinny in Part Two, Chapter 3?
(a) Chalk
(b) A notebook
(c) Magazines
(d) New shoes

14. When Alberto goes a second time to see his godfather in Part Two, Chapter 2, the godfather’s daughter tells Alberto that her father will be gone in the mountains for how many days?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 10

15. 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?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose monument does Alberto stop in front of in the darkness in Part Two, Chapter 3?

2. How many doctors does the colonel say determined that the bullet that killed the Slave was from his own rifle in Part Two, Chapter 6?

3. To whom does the Jaguar say in the barracks in Part Two, Chapter 8, “Yes, you’re a gentleman. Of course you are. Everybody from Miraflores is a gentleman”?

4. Lt. Gamboa receives a letter from his wife in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 6. In it, she says that who and her husband were waiting for her at the airport?

5. When questioned by Lt. Gamboa in Part Two, Chapter 5, the Jaguar admits that everyone in the first section bought exams except for whom?

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