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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) Mademba.
(b) Jean-Baptiste.
(c) His father.
(d) Fary Thiam.

2. When do Alfa's trenchmates begin to really fear him?
(a) After he brings back the fourth hand of the enemy.
(b) After he starts writing spells in his journal.
(c) After he starts praying all the time.
(d) After he starts talking to his dead mother.

3. What does Alfa always come back to the trenches with after Mademba dies?
(a) A flower.
(b) A head.
(c) A pig.
(d) A severed hand and the rifle it carried.

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

5. What does Alfa think about the owner of the fourth hand that he kills?
(a) He seems like a "good boy," an innocent.
(b) He is probably the one who killed Jean-Baptiste.
(c) He seems as if he has brutality in him.
(d) He is probably the one who killed Mademba.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the chief of Alfa's old village?

2. How many "traitorous" soldiers die at Captain Armand's command?

3. What is a totem, according to Alfa?

4. What does Mademba ask Alfa to do for him in Part I?

5. What does Alfa begin to think almost as soon as Mademba is dead?

(see the answer key)

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