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

2. What language did Mademba know how to speak that Alfa does not know how to speak?
(a) Russian.
(b) French.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Chinese.

3. How does Alfa help Mademba prepare for war enough so that he will be accepted into the army?
(a) By showing him how to use a rifle.
(b) By training him with a sword and feeding him a lot of food to help him gain weight.
(c) By reading him war stories.
(d) By showing him movies of war.

4. Why did Mademba want to go to war?
(a) He wanted to earn the respect of his father, also a war veteran.
(b) He wanted to earn the respect of the girl he loved in the village.
(c) He wanted to help save the "motherland," France.
(d) He wanted to avenge his own brother's death in Europe.

5. Why are the fires the men make in the trenches so small?
(a) No one knows how to make proper fires.
(b) The men are afraid of the heat.
(c) To make bigger ones would risk giving away their position to the enemy.
(d) They only have a little wood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alfa describe Captain Armand physically?

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

3. What does Alfa do when Mademba goes to school?

4. When do the white soldiers suddenly decide to stop obeying Captain Armand?

5. What does Alfa think the Captain and his fellow soldiers hope will happen to him when he returns to the Front from the Rear?

(see the answer key)

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