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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Paul Nizan’s
(c) Enrico Salazar’s
(d) Lord Byron’s

2. What is the Jaguar’s response when Lt. Gamboa asks him in Part Two, Chapter 5, “Why did you enroll in the Military Academy?”
(a) I wanted to be an army officer
(b) I wanted to impress my father
(c) I wanted to become a man
(d) I wanted to avoid juvenile hall

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

4. 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) Alberto
(c) Babe
(d) Curly

5. Who is described in Part Two, Chapter 4 as “a very young lieutenant, in charge of a company in the Third”?
(a) Lt. Gamboa
(b) Lt. Ferrero
(c) Lt. Pitaluga
(d) Lt. Huarina

Short Answer Questions

1. As Alberto contemplates his fate in the guardhouse, he thinks that he will run away with Teresa where in Part Two, Chapter 4?

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?

3. What did Lt. Gamboa tell the Jaguar to take with him to the guardhouse when he approached him in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 4?

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

5. The Jaguar tells Lt. Gamboa in the Epilogue, “They all say, ‘Gamboa’s the strictest of the officers but he’s the only one that’s’” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Slave injured in the novel? What is the status of his injuries in the opening of Part Two?

2. How does Alberto effectively get out of school early in Part Two, Chapter 1? On what days does he leave the campus?

3. How has the death of the Slave affected the Poet and the Jaguar in Part Two, Chapter 5?

4. Where is Alberto sent after meeting with the Colonel in Part Two? Who does he encounter here?

5. How does the Jaguar respond when Alberto attempts to make peace with him in Part Two, Chapter 8?

6. Who is the narrator in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 1? What does this narrator describe?

7. Who is the narrator in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 2? What does this narrator describe?

8. How is the theme of masculinity explored in Part Two, Chapter 5?

9. What is the outcome for Lt. Gamboa in the Epilogue of the novel? Where is he going?

10. Why does the colonel meet with the officers in Part Two, Chapter 2? What decision is reached?

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