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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator hear fine ladies and gentlemen saying as they step out of the plaza?
(a) Get me a drink.
(b) Fetch my coach.
(c) Justice for the bulls.
(d) What a fine day.

2. What is Quevedo staring vacantly at through the window?
(a) Women.
(b) Swordsmen.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

3. How does Alatriste respond to the soldiers who greet him?
(a) He touches the brim of his hat.
(b) He smiles.
(c) He waves his hand.
(d) He kisses them.

4. What ethnicity does Quevedo think flows through Gongora's blood?
(a) Arabic.
(b) African.
(c) French.
(d) Jewish.

5. Who found the chief constable his current position in the police force?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father-in-law.
(d) His step-father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was written on the note found in the dead woman's pouch?

2. What is the name of Conde de Olivares' wife?

3. What does Vincente de la Cruz stand before the narrator holding?

4. Where does the captain say he will accompany the two young popinjays if they don't retract their words?

5. What does de Quevedo's silence seem to say when he looks at Alatriste?

(see the answer key)

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