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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. How does Alfa always kill the enemy soldiers?
(a) He poisons them.
(b) He hangs them.
(c) He shoots them.
(d) He disembowels them.

2. Who is Alfa trying to avenge in Chapter XII?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His sister.
(d) Jean-Baptiste.

3. What is a totem, according to Alfa?
(a) An expense.
(b) Taboo.
(c) Silly.
(d) A relic of the older generations only.

4. What earns Alfa his solitude in war in Chapter VII?
(a) His prayers.
(b) The enemy hands.
(c) His unwillingness to wash.
(d) His language.

5. How does Alfa think Captain Armand really feels about war?
(a) He looks at it as his destiny because all the men in his family were soldiers too.
(b) He loves it.
(c) He looks at it as just a job.
(d) He abhors it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Ndiaye totem?

2. What does Captain Armand tell Alfa that he needs in Part II?

3. What does Alfa think "the Captain's France" requires of him and other Black soldiers?

4. What does Alfa compare his extraction of a German soldier from his trench in Part XII to?

5. What is the Diop totem?

(see the answer key)

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