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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 119 - 145).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alfa think Fary Thiam started doing before he did?
(a) Building houses.
(b) Having sex.
(c) Reading.
(d) Thinking for herself.

2. 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.

3. What phrase does Afla repeat many times at the beginning of his sentences in Part I?
(a) I know, I understand.
(b) Help now.
(c) Please God.
(d) You know.

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

5. What does Alfa's captain tell the soldiers in his unit think of Black soldiers like him?
(a) They think Black soldiers are not very smart.
(b) They think Black soldiers are the most intelligent soldiers of all.
(c) They are afraid of them, considering them savages.
(d) They like Black soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term does Alfa use to describe all the white soldiers?

3. What slang term do Alfa's fellow soldiers use for the Germans?

4. In Chapter X, what does Alfa know for sure he himself is not, even if everyone else seems to think he is?

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

(see the answer key)

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