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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Alberto walks from the bus station to his house in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 4, a group of small boys calls out to him. What do they ask Alberto?
(a) Where is your little sister?
(b) Are you the milk man?
(c) Where is your mother?
(d) Are you selling chocolates?

2. The narrator says in Part One, Chapter 7, “I don’t believe in the devil but sometimes” who makes him wonder?
(a) The Poet
(b) The Slave
(c) The Boa
(d) The Jaguar

3. What does the narrator of Part Two, Chapter 3 say they’ve changed the dog’s name to that lives at the Academy?
(a) Stumpy
(b) Gimpy
(c) Stimpy
(d) Grumpy

4. Where does Alberto’s father say he’ll send Alberto next year if he does well on his exams in Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) Mexico City
(b) Paris
(c) The Soviet Union
(d) The United States

5. The narrator says of Lt. Gamboa in Part One, Chapter 8, that he “loved the military life for exactly the same reasons that the others hated it.” What reasons are these?
(a) Paperwork, power, and discipline
(b) Discipline, rank, field exercises
(c) Corruption, hierarchy, and power
(d) Money, power, and strength

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. Where does the narrator of Part One, Chapter 5 tell his mother he’s going to have lunch with a friend?

3. At what time do the narrator and his fellow cadets go into Emilio’s house after the dance lesson in Part One, Chapter 7?

4. What does Lt. Gamboa say he always does when he is Officer of the Guard to pass the time in Part One, Chapter 8?

5. What character is described in Part One, Chapter 2 as “the huskiest cadet in the first section, perhaps in the whole Academy”?

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