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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 59 - 88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alfa think about the owner of the fourth hand that he kills?
(a) He is probably the one who killed Mademba.
(b) He seems as if he has brutality in him.
(c) He seems like a "good boy," an innocent.
(d) He is probably the one who killed Jean-Baptiste.

2. Who wrote, "We embraced each other by our names?"
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Byron.
(d) Montaigne.

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

4. What does Alfa think about his own physical appearance?
(a) He is average-looking.
(b) He is strong and handsome.
(c) He is too short to be considered attractive by western standards, but he is attractive in his own village.
(d) He is weak and not attractive.

5. What does Alfa always come back to the trenches with after Mademba dies?
(a) A pig.
(b) A head.
(c) A flower.
(d) A severed hand and the rifle it carried.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the voice inside Alfa's head tell him about his role in Mademba's death that continues to haunt him?

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

3. What does Alfa think of himself in Chapter III when he "leaves the belly of the earth"?

4. What forces Alfa to ignore Mademba's suffering as Mademba is dying?

5. Who is the doctor treating Alfa at the Rear?

(see the answer key)

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