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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 30 - 58).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Captain Armand wish to know the location of in Chapter VIII from Alfa?
(a) His crown.
(b) The severed hands.
(c) His uniform.
(d) His money.

2. What does Captain Armand tell Alfa that he needs in Part II?
(a) Better food.
(b) Rest.
(c) Water.
(d) Prayer.

3. What does Alfa begin to think almost as soon as Mademba is dead?
(a) That he should have taken Mademba on an airplane home.
(b) That he should have performed his magic above Mademba.
(c) That he should have slit Mademba's throat to put him out of his misery.
(d) That he should have fed Mademba.

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

5. What forces Alfa to ignore Mademba's suffering as Mademba is dying?
(a) Jean-Baptiste's songs.
(b) His commander's whistle.
(c) His own prayers.
(d) The voice he hears in his head, telling him not to kill Mademba.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work of Pascal Quignard's does Diop reference in the beginning of Part I?

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

3. What was the only thing Alfa was thinking about as Mademba died?

4. Who is Alfa's only real white friend among his fellow soldiers?

5. How old is Alfa when the novel starts?

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