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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. When does Captain Armand finally call Alfa in to have a serious talk about his conduct regarding enemy soldiers?
(a) After Alfa is missing for three straight days.
(b) After Alfa stops speaking to anyone.
(c) After Alfa brings back his seventh severed hand.
(d) After Alfa brings back a severed head.

2. What happens to Mademba and Alfa in the very end of the novel in Part V?
(a) They both die.
(b) Their consciousnesses and spirits merge into one in Alfa's body.
(c) They make their journey as friends back to Gandiol.
(d) They are killed by the German soldiers.

3. When do Alfa's trenchmates begin to really fear him?
(a) After he starts praying all the time.
(b) After he starts talking to his dead mother.
(c) After he brings back the fourth hand of the enemy.
(d) After he starts writing spells in his journal.

4. What does Alfa always do first to the soldiers he is going to kill?
(a) Disarm, gag, and then tie their hands behind their backs.
(b) Cut off their feet first.
(c) Slit their throats immediately.
(d) Knock them unconscious.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Alfa trying to avenge in Chapter XII?

2. How does Alfa quickly begin to feel about the German soldier he kills in Chapter XII?

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

4. What is the Ndiaye totem?

5. What is a totem, according to Alfa?

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