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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 Jean-Baptiste do with the hand he steals from Alfa?
(a) Puts it on a German flag to humiliate the Germans.
(b) Buries it.
(c) Wraps it in bandages and sticks it to his helmet.
(d) Burns it.

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

3. What does the voice inside Alfa's head tell him about his role in Mademba's death that continues to haunt him?
(a) He is going to have to kill many men to make up for Mademba's death.
(b) He is responsible for Mademba's death by mocking Mademba's totem.
(c) He is going to have to pray very hard to redeem himself.
(d) He is going to hell himself.

4. When does Alfa always kill the enemy soldiers he kills?
(a) Once they have called for reinforcements.
(b) Once they have lost all their blood.
(c) Once they have made their second plea to him with their eyes.
(d) Once they have said a prayer.

5. 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 the tobacco leaves all the other soldiers hang from the rafters.
(c) From how they dried fish in his village, Gandiol.
(d) From the dried sheep his first wife taught him how to cure.

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. How far away do his fellow soldiers begin staying from Alfa?

4. What does Alfa think "the Captain's France" requires of him and other Black soldiers?

5. What is a totem, according to Alfa?

(see the answer key)

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