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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does the narrator compare to an anthill?
(a) The steps of the church.
(b) The mountaiins in the distance.
(c) The road leading to the town center.
(d) The steps of the townhall.

3. The dead woman's head dress and gown lend her the look of __________.
(a) A dauphine.
(b) A spinster.
(c) A duenna.
(d) A widow.

4. For what two worlds does the author say Madris is the capital?
(a) The old and the new.
(b) The rich and the poor.
(c) The political and the artistic.
(d) The exciting and the boring.

5. What did Diego Alatriste enlist as in the army?
(a) A photographer.
(b) A gunner.
(c) A drummer boy.
(d) A foot soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. Captain Cuesta is deaf to _____________.

2. What had steel flashed like in the ugly scuffle?

3. Where do Alatriste, Inigo and don Quevedo go to mass in this section?

4. What does the narrator say every thirteen year old wants to taste from the world?

5. What made Inigo forget the fact people were following Alatriste?

(see the answer key)

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