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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. Who wrote, "We embraced each other by our names?"
(a) Joyce.
(b) Byron.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Montaigne.

2. What does Captain Armand order the other soldiers to do with the traitorous ones?
(a) Cut their tongues out.
(b) Cut their hair.
(c) Tie their hands behind their backs.
(d) Cut their hands off.

3. Before Mademba died, how did Alfa usually conduct himself with Mademba on the battlefield?
(a) He made sure Mademba was covering him.
(b) He made sure he was far away from Mademba.
(c) He made sure he was close to Mademba so he could try to protect Mademba.
(d) He made sure Mademba was always under a spell that Alfa cast, making Mademba invisible.

4. What does Alfa begin to think almost as soon as Mademba is dead?
(a) That he should have slit Mademba's throat to put him out of his misery.
(b) That he should have fed Mademba.
(c) That he should have performed his magic above Mademba.
(d) That he should have taken Mademba on an airplane home.

5. What work of Pascal Quignard's does Diop reference in the beginning of Part I?
(a) Camelot.
(b) The Vase.
(c) Carmen.
(d) Mourir de penser.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does one of the first soldiers to go out of the trench with his hands tied call out to in his last moment?

2. How do the Germans kill Jean-Baptiste?

3. What term does Alfa's unit use to refer to Black soldiers?

4. Why are the fires the men make in the trenches so small?

5. In Chapter III, what does Alfa think of his fellow soldiers?

(see the answer key)

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