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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Part One, Chapter 1 refers to a wild South American camelid that lives in the high alpine areas of the Andes?
(a) Vicuña
(b) Perros
(c) Hacienda
(d) Alpaca

2. Who exits the meeting with the Boa in the beginning of Part One, Chapter 1?
(a) Vallano
(b) Cava
(c) Alberto
(d) Curly

3. Whose image does Alberto try to remember as he unbuttons his pants at the hideout in Part One, Chapter 5?
(a) Golden Toes’s
(b) Pretty Face’s
(c) Marcela’s
(d) Carmela’s

4. Who is giving Alberto a dance lesson in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) Babe
(b) Pluto
(c) Nunez
(d) Revilla

5. Who does the narrator say he will kill “if he gets scared and drags us into it” in Part One, Chapter 7?
(a) Curly
(b) The Boa
(c) The Jaguar
(d) Cava

Short Answer Questions

1. Lt. Huarina is said to own a small store where, in Part One, Chapter 6?

2. Teresa’s aunt says that Teresa is almost what age in Part One, Chapter 4?

3. What color are the flannel pajamas that Cava wears in Part One, Chapter 1?

4. 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?

5. How many rooms does Teresa’s house have besides the kitchen, according to the narrator of Part One, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the character of Flaco Higueras described? What is his role in the novel?

2. How does Lt. Huarina utilize the information given to him by the Slave in Part One?

3. How does the Boa relate to the theme of racism in The Time of the Hero?

4. How is the “military spirit” defined by Capt. Garrido in Part One, Chapter 2?

5. How has the Slave’s death been foreshadowed in Part One?

6. How is the Slave’s situation described in Part One, Chapter 5? How does the confinement affect him?

7. How do the Slave and the Poet differ in their relationship to manhood in the novel?

8. What is the Poet’s objective in relation to the Slave in Part One of the novel?

9. What are two depictions of women and female sexuality illustrated in The Time of the Hero?

10. How is the character of Arrospide described? What is his role in the narrative?

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