View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Cava
(b) The Slave
(c) The Boa
(d) The Jaguar

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

3. The narrator of Part Two, Chapter 5 says that “they say” what women “are the most beautiful in the world”?
(a) Chilean
(b) North American
(c) Hawaiian
(d) European

4. How many cadets does the captain at the Fifth Year barracks say are currently confined in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 7?
(a) 20
(b) 30
(c) 60
(d) 40

5. When the Jaguar is ordered by Lt. Gamboa to go to the guardhouse in Part Two, Chapter 4, he tells Curly, “If this is about the exam, a lot of people are going to” what?
(a) Wish they’d never been born
(b) Go home crying to mama
(c) Get expelled from this school
(d) Get into deep water

Short Answer Questions

1. What cadet does the narrator of Part Two, Chapter 3 say was expelled for stealing the chemistry exam?

2. The captain tells Lt. Gamboa in the Epilogue that with his new assignment he can now visit where when he goes on leave?

3. Valdivieso says he believes who made up the nickname that Valdivieso is called in Part Two, Chapter 1?

4. Who does Alberto call from the busy bar in Part Two, Chapter 3?

5. What does the Jaguar admit in his note to Lt. Gamboa in the Epilogue of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action does Lt. Gamboa take in following up on Alberto’s claims in Part Two, Chapter 5?

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

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

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

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

6. What encounter takes place between Alberto and Teresa in Part Two, Chapter 3?

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

8. What confession does Alberto make in Part Two, Chapter 3? To whom does he make this confession?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 865 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample