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1. Describe the scene that opens Part One, Chapter 1 of the novel. Where are the main characters located, and what are they doing?

The Time of the Hero opens at night during a meeting of the Circle—a gang of four cadets in their final year of the Leoncio Prado Academy led by the Jaguar. Their clubhouse is "the windowless latrine" and they are rolling the dice to see who will steal the answers to the chemistry exam.

2. What is the task that Cava is enlisted to perform in Part One, Chapter 1?

Cava rolled the four, meaning he must make arrangements on behalf of the Circle with those cadets on duty to grant him anonymous passage to the academic building. Cava must then enter the classroom and steal the answers to the upcoming chemistry exam.

3. How is the character of Cava described by the narrator in Part 1, Chapter 1?

"Cava had been born and brought up in the mountains, cold weather was nothing new to him; it was fear that was giving him goose pimples." The fear stalking Cava is the fear of failure both to please the Jaguar and to survive the academy; it is the fear of being unable to handle a situation forced upon him.

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