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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 did people in Gandiol sometimes tell Mademba about Alfa?
(a) He was disgraced because of what his mother had done.
(b) He was a demm, consuming all of Mademba's strength for himself.
(c) He would make a lot of money someday, and Mademba should keep Alfa on his side for this reason.
(d) He was from an honorable family.

2. What does Alfa think the war has done to him in Chapter XIV?
(a) Made him grow up all at once.
(b) Made him a sorcerer.
(c) Made him a coward.
(d) Made him a hero.

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

4. What does Alfa think "the Captain's France" requires of him and other Black soldiers?
(a) For them to eat as much as possible.
(b) For them to write a lot of letters home telling their people everything is OK.
(c) For them to "play the savage" when it is required of them.
(d) For them to go first and into the most dangerous territory in battle.

5. What does Alfa do to the soldiers that he believes make them think he is about to rape them?
(a) Touch their genitals.
(b) Tells them he is going to rape them.
(c) Begins to undress himself.
(d) Undress them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Alfa think is necessary on the battlefield, as he narrates in Chapter VI?

3. Where does Alfa get the idea of how to preserve his severed hands?

4. Why was it particularly dangerous for Alfa to do what he did with Mademba's body in Chapter II?

5. What term does Alfa's unit use to refer to Black soldiers?

(see the answer key)

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