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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. Why is Alfa missing one of his hands?
(a) He lost one when he was running.
(b) He gave one as an offering to his sorcerer mentor.
(c) He buried one and forgot where it was buried.
(d) Due to a prank from a soldier-friend, Jean-Baptiste.

2. What does Alfa think of himself in Chapter III when he "leaves the belly of the earth"?
(a) He makes himself a little inhuman.
(b) He becomes like a snake.
(c) He becomes like a peacock.
(d) He calls on his sorcerer ancestors and becomes like a sorcerer.

3. What is the Diop totem?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A panther.
(c) A peacock.
(d) An alligator.

4. What term does Alfa use to describe all the white soldiers?
(a) Tirald.
(b) Toubab.
(c) Armand.
(d) Timpand.

5. How does Alfa think Mademba really felt about him?
(a) He thinks Mademba hated Alfa with all his might, and tried to get him killed in the war.
(b) He thinks Mademba really did not like him, but pretended that he did.
(c) He thinks Mademba loved and envied him at the same time.
(d) He thinks Mademba resented Alfa for wanting to marry Mademba's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa always do first to the soldiers he is going to kill?

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

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

4. How old is Alfa when the novel starts?

5. What does Alfa do with Mademba's body after he dies?

(see the answer key)

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