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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color uniforms does the narrator of Part Two, Chapter 1 describe the students from La Salle wearing?
(a) Light yellow
(b) Light brown
(c) Light blue
(d) Light gray

2. 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) 3
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 2

3. What does the Jaguar admit in his note to Lt. Gamboa in the Epilogue of the novel?
(a) That he cheated on the history exam
(b) That he murdered Cava
(c) That he stole the chemistry exam
(d) That he murdered the Slave

4. One of the cadets says that Alberto is half what ethnicity in Part Two, Chapter 1?
(a) Inca
(b) Bolivian
(c) Haitian
(d) Trinidadian

5. Whose quote opens Part Two of the novel (“I’m twenty years old. Don’t let anyone tell me it is the most beautiful period of life.”)?
(a) Jean-Paul Sartre’s
(b) Lord Byron’s
(c) Enrico Salazar’s
(d) Paul Nizan’s

6. To what street does Alberto go to find his godfather in Part Two, Chapter 7?
(a) Francisco Pizarro Avenue
(b) Sáenz Peña Avenue
(c) Arica Avenue
(d) Progreso Avenue

7. Of what cadet does the narrator of Part Two, Chapter 3 say he “never talks any more. It’s over four days since his buddy’s funeral, he could’ve got over it by now, but he’s even worse”?
(a) The Boa
(b) Babe
(c) Alberto
(d) Curly

8. Who does Alberto call from the busy bar in Part Two, Chapter 3?
(a) Lt. Huarina
(b) Lt. Pitaluga
(c) Lt. Gamboa
(d) Capt. Garrido

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 kicked by a horse
(b) He was in a train accident
(c) The Jaguar hit him
(d) He was hit by a car

10. Where does Alberto say Skinny took him to a different bar that was dark and dirty in Part Two, Chapter 2?
(a) Arica Avenue
(b) Sáenz Peña Avenue
(c) The Bellavista Plaza
(d) Francisco Pizarro Avenue

11. What lieutenant does Alberto insist the captain ask about the Slave’s squealing on Cava in Part Two, Chapter 4?
(a) Lt. Ferrero
(b) Lt. Pitaluga
(c) Lt. Huarina
(d) Lt. Gamboa

12. What animals does Lt. Gamboa say he’ll be seeing plenty of in his new assignment in the Epilogue?
(a) Llamas
(b) Rabbits
(c) Turtles
(d) Vicuñas

13. Where does Alberto tell the colonel his mother is from in Part Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Cajamarca
(b) Pucallpa
(c) Moquegua
(d) Piura

14. Who is the narrator that describes his birthday in Part Two, Chapter 2?
(a) Alberto
(b) Valdivieso
(c) Cava
(d) Vallano

15. 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. Pitaluga
(b) Lt. Huarina
(c) Capt. Garrido
(d) Lt. Gamboa

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose funeral is being held in Part Two, Chapter 2?

2. After his meeting with the colonel, Alberto returns to the guardhouse and is put in the same cell with whom in Part Two, Chapter 6?

3. 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?

4. Whose “songlike voice” does Alberto distinguish among the cadets shouting “Squealer!” at the Jaguar in Part Two, Chapter 8?

5. Alberto says in Part Two, Chapter 7, “The rest of that day I just wandered around, and a woman gave me some bread and a little milk. When it got dark I slept in a ditch again, near” what street?

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