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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. Alberto sees Teresa with two girls after the last exam in Part Two, Chapter 4. Where does Teresa tell him they are going?
(a) To a candy store
(b) To the library
(c) To the movies
(d) To the beach

2. Who believes that the squealer in Part Two, Chapter 5 must be the Jaguar after the lockers are searched?
(a) Arrospide
(b) Curly
(c) Cava
(d) Alberto

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

4. 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. Gamboa
(d) Lt. Huarina

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When meeting with the colonel, Alberto says he believes that General Temple is from where in Part Two, Chapter 6?

3. 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?

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?

5. One of the cadets says that Alberto is half what ethnicity in Part Two, Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What causes the Poet to begin to doubt himself and his allegations in Part Two?

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

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

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

9. How does Lt. Gamboa respond to the Jaguar’s confession in the Epilogue of the novel?

10. What does the character of the Boa represent symbolically in The Time of the Hero?

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