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

2. What does Alfa do to the soldiers that he believes make them think he is about to rape them?
(a) Tells them he is going to rape them.
(b) Touch their genitals.
(c) Begins to undress himself.
(d) Undress them.

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 fed Mademba.
(d) That he should have slit Mademba's throat to put him out of his misery.

4. Where does Alfa often kill the enemy soldiers in Chapter III?
(a) No-man's-land.
(b) The forest on the German side.
(c) His own trench.
(d) By the river.

5. What entreaty to Mademba does Alfa finish Chapter I with?
(a) He asks Mademba to avenge him.
(b) He asks Mademba to pray for him.
(c) He asks Mademba to tell his mother he loves her if he sees her in heaven.
(d) He asks Mademba to forgive him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa claim he reeks of?

2. What does Alfa do when a retreat is called, in the wake of Mademba's death?

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

4. Whose "more-than-brother" does Alfa become in the wake of Mademba's death?

5. Who does Alfa believe his thoughts belong to?

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