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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 rumor begins to spread about Alfa in Chapter VI?
(a) That he is a God.
(b) That he is a sorcerer.
(c) That he is the wealthy son of a businessman.
(d) That he is an imposter.

2. What analogy does Alfa use for Mademba's suffering in Part I?
(a) It is like the moon.
(b) It is like a snake.
(c) It is like barbed wire.
(d) It is like heat.

3. Why does Alfa think Fary sleeps with him before he goes to war?
(a) She wants to protect him with her magic.
(b) She wants to show Alfa's father that someone loves him.
(c) She loves him more than she loves the honor of her own father.
(d) She wants the village to expel her, and this is the fastest, surest way to do that.

4. Which of the following phrases about God does Alfa repeat throughout Part I?
(a) God's truth.
(b) God, who cannot hear me.
(c) God's light.
(d) God knows well.

5. What does Jean-Baptiste do with the hand he steals from Alfa?
(a) Wraps it in bandages and sticks it to his helmet.
(b) Puts it on a German flag to humiliate the Germans.
(c) Buries it.
(d) Burns it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Mademba and Alfa in the very end of the novel in Part V?

2. What does Alfa think of Captain Armand's treatment of the traitorous soldiers?

3. Who does Alfa think is attracted to him at the Rear?

4. What does the Fula nomads' proverb say, according to Alfa?

5. What did the chief of Alfa's old village once propose that the village grow exclusively?

(see the answer key)

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