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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 89 - 118).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alfa think his fellow soldiers prefer to think might kill them?
(a) A real enemy.
(b) A true friend.
(c) The evil eye, not the war itself.
(d) God.

2. Who is Mademba's father?
(a) Davi Diop.
(b) Marshall Diop.
(c) Harvre Diop.
(d) Sire Diop.

3. In Chapter V, who does Alfa confess he was listening to right around the time when Mademba dies?
(a) His father.
(b) His enemy.
(c) His God.
(d) His mother.

4. Where does Alfa get the idea of how to preserve his severed hands?
(a) From the tobacco leaves all the other soldiers hang from the rafters.
(b) From the dried sheep his first wife taught him how to cure.
(c) From the dried meat they eat in the trenches.
(d) From how they dried fish in his village, Gandiol.

5. What does Alfa compare his extraction of a German soldier from his trench in Part XII to?
(a) Extracting a fish from the river.
(b) Extracting a tiny baby from his mother's belly.
(c) Extracting a seed from a pod.
(d) Extracting a rabbit from a hole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa compare his doctor to?

2. What does Captain Armand order the other soldiers to do with the traitorous ones?

3. Who is the first love of Alfa's?

4. What does Alfa think the war has done to him in Chapter XIV?

5. How old were Alfa and Fary when they had their sexual encounter?

(see the answer key)

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