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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. How old is Alfa when the novel starts?
(a) 35.
(b) 20.
(c) 18.
(d) 40.

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

3. What does Alfa put on the trunk where he keeps the severed hands to keep people out of it?
(a) A talisman.
(b) A knife.
(c) A smear of tar.
(d) A totem.

4. What does Alfa think is necessary on the battlefield, as he narrates in Chapter VI?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Madness.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Food.

5. Who is Mademba's father?
(a) Sire Diop.
(b) Davi Diop.
(c) Harvre Diop.
(d) Marshall Diop.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Captain Armand signal to his own men that an attack is about to begin?

2. Why did Mademba want to go to war?

3. What does Captain Armand tell the traitorous soldiers they can have if they put themselves over the top of the trench to be killed by the enemy?

4. What does the voice inside Alfa's head tell him about his role in Mademba's death that continues to haunt him?

5. What does Alfa say Mademba Diop looked like?

(see the answer key)

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