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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes Alberto as getting off the bus at what stop in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 4?
(a) Alcanfores
(b) Paita
(c) Mancora
(d) Talara

2. The narrator notes in Part One, Chapter 2 of the Fifth Year cadets that they know there are how many minutes between the bugle player’s call and the whistle that calls them to fall in line?
(a) 3 minutes
(b) 10 minutes
(c) 20 minutes
(d) 15 minutes

3. Skinny tells Alberto in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 3 that the narrator has a nephew who must be about what age by now?
(a) 4
(b) 2
(c) 8
(d) 3

4. The narrator describes the morning wind springing up where in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 2?
(a) Arequipa
(b) Cusco
(c) La Perla
(d) Moquegua

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?
(a) A left angle
(b) A right angle
(c) Ten points
(d) A court-martial

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does the Boa say he has to go on guard in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 1?

2. What does Alberto drink a shot of with Skinny at the bar in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 3?

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

4. By what name do the elder-classmen of the academy refer to the under-classmen?

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

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