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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 59 - 88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alfa suspect about Seck's translation of Captain Armand's directions to Alfa?
(a) Seck does not really speak the Captain's langauge very well.
(b) Seck is leaving out some things Captain Armand is saying.
(c) Seck is translating word for word.
(d) Seck does not really speak Alfa's language very well.

2. What does Captain Armand wish to know the location of in Chapter VIII from Alfa?
(a) His crown.
(b) His uniform.
(c) His money.
(d) The severed hands.

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

4. How far away do his fellow soldiers begin staying from Alfa?
(a) Nine leagues.
(b) Ten large steps.
(c) Two fields' length.
(d) Six meters.

5. What is a totem, according to Alfa?
(a) Taboo.
(b) Silly.
(c) An expense.
(d) A relic of the older generations only.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa put on the trunk where he keeps the severed hands to keep people out of it?

2. Where are most of the other Black soldiers from in the unit?

3. In Chapter XI, what does Jean-Baptiste become that eventually leads to his death?

4. What work of Cheikh Hamidou Kane's does Diop reference in the beginning of Part I?

5. What, in war, is "bravery's sister," according to Alfa?

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