1. Lt. Huarina is said to own a small store where, in Part One, Chapter 6?
(a) Chimbote
(b) Trujillo
(c) Cajamarca
(d) Los Barrios

2. The young lieutenant who calls for Alberto in Part Two, Chapter 4 tells him to go to the office of his Year and report to whom?
(a) Lt. Huarina
(b) Lt. Gamboa
(c) Lt. Pitaluga
(d) Capt. Garrido

3. Skinny tells Alberto about one time when Alberto’s brother was caught breaking into a house where in Part Two, Chapter 2?
(a) Chiclayo
(b) Trujillo
(c) La Perla
(d) Chimbote

4. On what day of the week does the narrator’s neighbor go with her aunt to Lima in Part One, Chapter 3?
(a) Tuesdays
(b) Mondays
(c) Thursdays
(d) Sundays

5. The quote that opens Part One, Chapter 1 (“We play the part of heroes because we’re cowards, the part of saints because we’re wicked”) is written by whom?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(b) Samuel Beckett
(c) Jean-Paul Sartre
(d) Franz Kafka

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. By what nickname is Ricardo Arana known in the Circle?

3. What is Alberto’s last name in the novel?

4. What do Alberto’s mother’s women friends come over to play every afternoon in Part One, Chapter 4?

5. What three army noncoms follow Lt. Gamboa as he orders the cadets into line in Part One, Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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