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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 119 - 145).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medal is Alfa told he will be awarded in Part II?
(a) The Gold Star.
(b) The Purple Heart.
(c) The Wallingford.
(d) The Croix de Guerre.

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

3. In Chapter XVII, who does Alfa briefly fantasize about visiting revenge on for what happened to his mother?
(a) The Fulus.
(b) The Moors.
(c) The Hustis.
(d) The Fistus.

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

5. What does Alfa think Fary Thiam started doing before he did?
(a) Thinking for herself.
(b) Reading.
(c) Building houses.
(d) Having sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who challenges the village chief in Gandiol ask the chief to remember?

2. When does Alfa always kill the enemy soldiers he kills?

3. Where are most of the other Black soldiers from in the unit?

4. Which soldier does Alfa extract from the trench to kill in Chapter XII?

5. What does Mademba ask Alfa to do for him in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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