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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. Who comes running into the barracks shouting at the cadets to be quiet and stop as they verbally assault the Jaguar in Part Two, Chapter 8?
(a) Curly
(b) Alberto
(c) Vallano
(d) Valdivieso

2. The captain tells Lt. Gamboa in Part Two, Chapter 7, “A clean conscience might help you get into heaven, but it won’t help” what?
(a) Your ambitions
(b) Your marriage
(c) Your brotherhood
(d) Your career

3. 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) Curly
(b) The Boa
(c) Alberto
(d) Babe

4. Skinny tells Alberto about one time when Alberto’s brother was caught breaking into a house where in Part Two, Chapter 2?
(a) Chiclayo
(b) Trujillo
(c) Chimbote
(d) La Perla

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the other cadets return to the Fifth Year bunks in Part Two, Chapter 8, Alberto tells them that he got his injuries how?

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. How long has it been since Alberto’s godfather has seen him when he arrives at his house in Part Two, Chapter 7?

4. Who is the instructor of the physical education class that Alberto describes sneaking out of in Part Two, Chapter 1?

5. Who argues with the captain over Alberto’s right to make allegations against the circle in Part Two, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are revealed to be the Jaguar’s objectives in Part Two of the novel? Why are his objectives not met?

3. Who is the second narrator of Part Two, Chapter 1? What does this character relate in the chapter?

4. What does the character of Ricardo Arana represent symbolically in The Time of the Hero?

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

6. How does the meeting between the Colonel and the Poet end in Part Two, Chapter 6?

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

8. Who is the narrator in the opening of Part Two, Chapter 3? What does this character describe?

9. What vow does the Jaguar make in Part Two, Chapter 4? Who witnesses this vow?

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

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