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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 89 - 118).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second drawing Alfa makes for the doctor?
(a) Jean-Baptiste.
(b) His father.
(c) Mademba.
(d) Fary Thiam.

2. How does Alfa describe his mother's and father's relationship?
(a) His mother was his father's second cousin.
(b) His mother was his father's first and only love.
(c) His mother was his father's fourth and final wife.
(d) His father and mother never got along.

3. Which of the following phrases about God does Alfa repeat throughout Part I?
(a) God's truth.
(b) God's light.
(c) God, who cannot hear me.
(d) God knows well.

4. 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.

5. 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 hell himself.
(b) He is going to have to kill many men to make up for Mademba's death.
(c) He is going to have to pray very hard to redeem himself.
(d) He is responsible for Mademba's death by mocking Mademba's totem.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alfa always kill the enemy soldiers?

2. What does Alfa use to create the entity he hopes will warn people off his hiding place for the hands?

3. What forces Alfa to ignore Mademba's suffering as Mademba is dying?

4. Who wrote, "We embraced each other by our names?"

5. Which soldier does Alfa extract from the trench to kill in Chapter XII?

(see the answer key)

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