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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Teresa’s aunt says that Teresa is almost what age in Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) 18
(b) 20
(c) 16
(d) 21

2. 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) Franz Kafka
(b) Samuel Beckett
(c) Jean-Paul Sartre
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson

3. Where do the buglers play their morning alarm on Saturdays, according to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) The General’s headquarters
(b) The parade ground
(c) The latrines
(d) The clock tower

4. Where does the narrator say Porfirio Cava grew up in Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) The coast
(b) The desert
(c) The meadowlands
(d) The mountains

5. According to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 6, the Jaguar invented the breath-holding trick, which would lead the attendant to admit one to the infirmary with symptoms of what?
(a) Tachycardia
(b) Insomnia
(c) Paranoia
(d) Tuberculosis

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says in Part One, Chapter 6 of the infirmary doctors, “they knew that if you put banana peels on your forehead for a couple of hours, your temperature would go up to about” what?

3. What character is described in Part One, Chapter 2 as “an excellent soccer player and his kick had tremendous force”?

4. At whose house is the party going to be tomorrow, according to the narrator in Part One, Chapter 7?

5. The three cadets that were last to fall in line are given a choice by Lt. Gamboa for six points or what, in Part One, Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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