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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. Who does Lt. Gamboa order to take the Jaguar’s place in the attack formation in Part Two, Chapter 5?
(a) Arrospide
(b) Cava
(c) Ricardo
(d) Alberto

2. Who responds to the Colonel that he is to be Officer of the Day tomorrow during the funeral in Part Two, Chapter 2?
(a) Lt. Pitaluga
(b) Lt. Pitaluga
(c) Lt. Huarina
(d) Lt. Gamboa

3. When meeting with the colonel, Alberto says he believes that General Temple is from where in Part Two, Chapter 6?
(a) Tarapoto
(b) Piura
(c) Cajamarca
(d) Moquegua

4. How many cadets does the captain at the Fifth Year barracks say are currently confined in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 7?
(a) 60
(b) 20
(c) 40
(d) 30

5. Who is the art and music teacher that Alberto describes in Part Two, Chapter 1?
(a) Señor Cigüeña
(b) Señor Arana
(c) Señor Zapata
(d) Señor Garrido

Short Answer Questions

1. After Alberto’s fight on the beach and his trouble with the police in Part Two, Chapter 5, he doesn’t return home but goes to live with whom?

2. Who is the narrator that describes his birthday in Part Two, Chapter 2?

3. To whom does the Jaguar say in the barracks in Part Two, Chapter 8, “Yes, you’re a gentleman. Of course you are. Everybody from Miraflores is a gentleman”?

4. What does the narrator of Part Two, Chapter 3 say they’ve changed the dog’s name to that lives at the Academy?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What vow does the Jaguar make in Part Two, Chapter 4? Who witnesses this vow?

2. What are revealed to be the Jaguar’s objectives in Part Two of the novel? Why are his objectives not met?

3. What does the Colonel use in order to blackmail the Poet in Part Two, Chapter 6?

4. What does the character of Ricardo Arana represent symbolically in The Time of the Hero?

5. Where is Alberto sent after meeting with the Colonel in Part Two? Who does he encounter here?

6. What is Alberto’s theory regarding the death of the Slave in Part Two, Chapter 4?

7. Who is the narrator in the opening of Part Two, Chapter 3? What does this character describe?

8. How has the death of the Slave affected the Poet and the Jaguar in Part Two, Chapter 5?

9. Where do Skinny and Alberto go in order to perform their first robbery together in Part Two, Chapter 3? What are Alberto’s instructions?

10. How does the Jaguar respond when Alberto attempts to make peace with him in Part Two, Chapter 8?

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