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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. 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) Jean-Paul Sartre
(c) Samuel Beckett
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2. Where does the narrator suggest that he and his mother go back to in Part One, Chapter 5?
(a) Iquitos
(b) Pucallpa
(c) Chiclayo
(d) Machala

3. Alberto says that each time he goes with Skinny to rob houses, he earns about how much in Part Two, Chapter 4?
(a) 20 soles
(b) 5 soles
(c) 10 soles
(d) 15 soles

4. As Alberto contemplates his fate in the guardhouse, he thinks that he will run away with Teresa where in Part Two, Chapter 4?
(a) To Montreal
(b) To Lima
(c) To New York
(d) To Paris

5. The narrator in Part Two, Chapter 3 describes the Poet as having been flattened by whom in a fight?
(a) Pluto
(b) Gallo
(c) Paulino
(d) Huarina

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Alberto call from the busy bar in Part Two, Chapter 3?

2. Where does the narrator say Porfirio Cava grew up in Part One, Chapter 1?

3. Who answers the door at Teresa’s neighbor’s house when she goes to take a bath there before her date in Part One, Chapter 4?

4. Who is described in Part Two, Chapter 4 as “a very young lieutenant, in charge of a company in the Third”?

5. How many hours will Ricardo have outside the Academy on his pass after he’s revealed the person responsible for the chemistry exam theft in Part One, Chapter 6?

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