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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 say on the subjects of blame and God in Chapter XII?
(a) God tries to blame other entities for what goes wrong in war.
(b) God does not even understand the concept of blame.
(c) You can not blame God for the bad things that happen to individuals in war.
(d) God is to blame for all that goes on in wars.

2. What does Alfa think is necessary on the battlefield, as he narrates in Chapter VI?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Food.
(d) Madness.

3. Who does Alfa think is attracted to him at the Rear?
(a) Mademoiselle Henri.
(b) Mademoiselle Francois.
(c) Mademoiselle Detrande.
(d) Mademoiselle Armand.

4. Why did Mademba want to go to war?
(a) He wanted to help save the "motherland," France.
(b) He wanted to earn the respect of the girl he loved in the village.
(c) He wanted to avenge his own brother's death in Europe.
(d) He wanted to earn the respect of his father, also a war veteran.

5. Whose "more-than-brother" does Alfa become in the wake of Mademba's death?
(a) Death's.
(b) Life's.
(c) God's.
(d) Prayer's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far away do his fellow soldiers begin staying from Alfa?

2. Why does Alfa's mother set off away from Gandiol?

3. Who does Alfa lose his virginity to?

4. Why is Alfa missing one of his hands?

5. What do the soldiers seem to think about Jean-Baptiste and the hand he stole?

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