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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 do wrestlers and warriors have, according to the narrator?
(a) Scars.
(b) Enemies.
(c) Medals.
(d) Friends.

2. How does the narrator describe the daughter of the vain king in Chapter XXV?
(a) Cunning.
(b) Simple.
(c) Strange.
(d) Fickle.

3. What does Mademba ask Alfa to do for him in Part I?
(a) Feed him.
(b) Pray for him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Take him home.

4. What does Alfa imagine the Germans did for the person who killed Jean-Baptiste?
(a) Offer him tobacco and maybe even write a song for him.
(b) Punish him.
(c) Give him chocolate.
(d) Give him a parade.

5. Where do the soldiers Alfa kills in the night always come out of?
(a) A mortal-shell hole.
(b) An outhouse.
(c) A church.
(d) A kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase does Alfa end Chapter III with?

2. What does Alfa say that the mad fear?

3. In Chapter XI, what does Jean-Baptiste become that eventually leads to his death?

4. What does Jean-Baptiste do with the hand he steals from Alfa?

5. How do the Germans kill Jean-Baptiste?

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