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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. In Chapter XI, what does Jean-Baptiste become that eventually leads to his death?
(a) An informant.
(b) A cook.
(c) A provocateur.
(d) A unit leader.

2. Why are the fires the men make in the trenches so small?
(a) No one knows how to make proper fires.
(b) The men are afraid of the heat.
(c) They only have a little wood.
(d) To make bigger ones would risk giving away their position to the enemy.

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

4. What does Alfa always come back to the trenches with after Mademba dies?
(a) A severed hand and the rifle it carried.
(b) A pig.
(c) A flower.
(d) A head.

5. What causes a major change in Jean-Baptiste?
(a) Seeing his best friend die.
(b) His loss of one of his feet.
(c) His receipt of a perfumed letter.
(d) His backfiring of his rifle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa tell himself to be careful of once he decides he is free to think what he wants?

2. What does the voice inside Alfa's head tell him as he stayed with Mademba when Mademba was dying?

3. What is another word Alfa thinks people now think of him as, in the wake of Mademba's death?

4. What does Alfa think his fellow soldiers prefer to think might kill them?

5. What does Alfa always do first to the soldiers he is going to kill?

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