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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the voice inside Alfa's head tell him as he stayed with Mademba when Mademba was dying?
(a) To run away and leave the war.
(b) To respect his mother's wishes and only to kill enemy soldiers.
(c) To kill Mademba.
(d) Not to kill Mademba and play God.

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

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

4. Who is Alfa's only real white friend among his fellow soldiers?
(a) Jean-Luc.
(b) Jean-Baptiste.
(c) Roland.
(d) Ibrahima.

5. When does Alfa always kill the enemy soldiers he kills?
(a) Once they have made their second plea to him with their eyes.
(b) Once they have called for reinforcements.
(c) Once they have lost all their blood.
(d) Once they have said a prayer.

6. What words do Alfa's translator in Part II say over and over?
(a) Please sir, do not hurt us.
(b) The Captain says.
(c) These are not my words.
(d) These are his words.

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

8. Before Mademba died, how did Alfa usually conduct himself with Mademba on the battlefield?
(a) He made sure Mademba was always under a spell that Alfa cast, making Mademba invisible.
(b) He made sure Mademba was covering him.
(c) He made sure he was far away from Mademba.
(d) He made sure he was close to Mademba so he could try to protect Mademba.

9. What does Alfa hear the night he approaches the German trenches to avenge Jean-Baptiste's death?
(a) Singing.
(b) Angry shouting.
(c) Snoring.
(d) Crying.

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

11. What work of Pascal Quignard's does Diop reference in the beginning of Part I?
(a) Carmen.
(b) Camelot.
(c) Mourir de penser.
(d) The Vase.

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

13. What is another word Alfa thinks people now think of him as, in the wake of Mademba's death?
(a) A demm.
(b) A turncoat.
(c) An imposter.
(d) A priest.

14. Whose "more-than-brother" does Alfa become in the wake of Mademba's death?
(a) God's.
(b) Prayer's.
(c) Death's.
(d) Life's.

15. Who translates the words of Captain Armand for Alfa?
(a) Ibrahima Seck.
(b) Jean-Baptiste.
(c) Mademba.
(d) Horatio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What entreaty to Mademba does Alfa finish Chapter I with?

2. When do Alfa's trenchmates begin to really fear him?

3. How does Alfa always kill the enemy soldiers?

4. Where does Alfa often kill the enemy soldiers in Chapter III?

5. What does Alfa think his fellow soldiers prefer to think might kill them?

(see the answer keys)

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