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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 tells the narrator in Part Two, Chapter 5 after the Fifth has been ordered to open their lockers for inspection, “Keep hold of yourself; this is the end of the world”?
(a) Vallano
(b) Alberto
(c) Cava
(d) Lt. Ferrero

2. What animals does Lt. Gamboa say he’ll be seeing plenty of in his new assignment in the Epilogue?
(a) Turtles
(b) Rabbits
(c) Llamas
(d) Vicuñas

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

5. Whose “songlike voice” does Alberto distinguish among the cadets shouting “Squealer!” at the Jaguar in Part Two, Chapter 8?
(a) Paulino’s
(b) Quiñones’s
(c) Pezoa’s
(d) Perico’s

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Lt. Gamboa’s “solitary house” located, according to the narrator of Part Two, Chapter 8?

2. How long ago does Alberto say that Teresa came to live next door to him in Part Two, Chapter 4?

3. The narrator in Part Two, Chapter 3 describes the Poet as having been flattened by whom in a fight?

4. After his meeting with the colonel, Alberto returns to the guardhouse and is put in the same cell with whom in Part Two, Chapter 6?

5. What does Tere give to the narrator in Part Two, Chapter 2 for his birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the theme of masculinity explored in Part Two, Chapter 5?

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

3. Who is the narrator in the beginning of Part Two, Chapter 2? What does this narrator describe?

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

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

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

7. What confession does Alberto make in Part Two, Chapter 3? To whom does he make this confession?

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

9. What is the outcome for Lt. Gamboa in the Epilogue of the novel? Where is he going?

10. How would you describe the Boa’s relationship to the Jaguar in the novel?

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