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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the friend of Skinny’s that meets Skinny and Alberto to perform a robbery in Part Two, Chapter 3?

2. Who is the art and music teacher that Alberto describes in Part Two, Chapter 1?

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

4. The narrator of Part Two, Chapter 5 says that “they say” what women “are the most beautiful in the world”?

5. How long ago does Alberto say that Teresa came to live next door to him in Part Two, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Colonel use in order to blackmail the Poet in Part Two, Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What epiphany does the Jaguar come to in Part Two, Chapter 8?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the characters of Golden Toes and Teresa in the narrative. How do the cadets communicate when they discuss Golden Toes? What stories do they relate? How is their reverence different with Teresa?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and analyze the character of Alberto Fernandez in the novel. How old is Alberto? Where is he from? What is his nickname within the Circle? What are Alberto’s actions, obstacles and objectives in the narrative?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and analyze the different social and economic classes seen in the novel. How is social and economic class depicted through the different main characters? How does class play a role at the academy?

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