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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 V, who does Alfa confess he was listening to right around the time when Mademba dies?
(a) His enemy.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His God.

2. What does Alfa do to preserve the hands he severs?
(a) Puts them in clay pots.
(b) Buries them.
(c) Washes them.
(d) Coats them in salt.

3. What earns Alfa his solitude in war in Chapter VII?
(a) His language.
(b) His prayers.
(c) The enemy hands.
(d) His unwillingness to wash.

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

5. What does Alfa say that the mad fear?
(a) Only death.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Only hell.
(d) Everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Alfa always kill the enemy soldiers he kills?

2. What does Alfa think of himself in Chapter III when he "leaves the belly of the earth"?

3. What does Alfa do to the soldiers that he believes make them think he is about to rape them?

4. What does Alfa begin to think almost as soon as Mademba is dead?

5. Why is Alfa missing one of his hands?

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