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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 Alfa imagine the Germans did for the person who killed Jean-Baptiste?
(a) Give him a parade.
(b) Give him chocolate.
(c) Offer him tobacco and maybe even write a song for him.
(d) Punish him.

2. In Chapter II, what does Alfa think the trenches look like?
(a) A woman's genitals.
(b) A snake.
(c) A river.
(d) A diamond.

3. What color eyes do Alfa's enemy soldiers always have?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Grey.

4. What phrase does Afla repeat many times at the beginning of his sentences in Part I?
(a) You know.
(b) I know, I understand.
(c) Help now.
(d) Please God.

5. In what way does Mademba actually die?
(a) A German soldier shoots him.
(b) A German soldier hangs him.
(c) A German solder disembowels him.
(d) He is shot by one of his own infantrymen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the Ndiaye totem?

3. What work of Cheikh Hamidou Kane's does Diop reference in the beginning of Part I?

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

5. What does Alfa hear the night he approaches the German trenches to avenge Jean-Baptiste's death?

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