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

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

3. What term does Alfa's unit use to refer to Black soldiers?
(a) Sorcerers.
(b) Big Men.
(c) Chocolats.
(d) Night Hawks.

4. What rumor begins to spread about Alfa in Chapter VI?
(a) That he is an imposter.
(b) That he is a God.
(c) That he is a sorcerer.
(d) That he is the wealthy son of a businessman.

5. What phrase does Alfa end Chapter III with?
(a) Revenge is righteous.
(b) At night, all blood is black.
(c) I know, I understand.
(d) God knows his plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work of Pascal Quignard's does Diop reference in the beginning of Part I?

2. What does Alfa do to preserve the hands he severs?

3. What does Alfa always come back to the trenches with after Mademba dies?

4. What does Alfa imagine the Germans did for the person who killed Jean-Baptiste?

5. In Chapter III, what does Alfa think of his fellow soldiers?

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