4. How does Alfa think Captain Armand really feels about war?
(a) He loves it.
(b) He abhors it.
(c) He looks at it as just a job.
(d) He looks at it as his destiny because all the men in his family were soldiers too.

5. How does Alfa help Mademba prepare for war enough so that he will be accepted into the army?
(a) By reading him war stories.
(b) By training him with a sword and feeding him a lot of food to help him gain weight.
(c) By showing him movies of war.
(d) By showing him how to use a rifle.

6. Why does Alfa's maternal grandfather like his own father so much?
(a) Alfa's father saved his maternal grandfather from drowning.
(b) Alfa's father let his maternal grandfather water his herd on his land.
(c) Alfa's father was his maternal grandfather's priest.
(d) Alfa's father loaned his maternal grandfather money.

7. Who was the chief of Alfa's old village?
(a) Alfa's father.
(b) Davi Diop.
(c) Arminata Sarr.
(d) Abdou Thiam.

8. What is the doctor's personality like?
(a) Suspicious.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Angry.
(d) Gregarious.

9. What do the soldiers seem to think about Jean-Baptiste and the hand he stole?
(a) No one believed he had actually stolen the hand.
(b) The hand seemed to bring Jean-Baptiste magical powers, and invulnerability.
(c) The hand had brought him good luck.
(d) The hand had brought him bad luck.

10. Who is the first love of Alfa's?
(a) Rilo Meto.
(b) Penndo Hero.
(c) Mary Ba.
(d) Fary Thiam.

11. 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 Mademba.
(c) He seems as if he has brutality in him.
(d) He is probably the one who killed Jean-Baptiste.

12. What does Alfa say when Captain Armand wants to know where his severed hands are?
(a) He says he lost them.
(b) He says God took them because he was unhappy with Alfa.
(c) He says he buried them and does not remember where they are.
(d) He says he bartered them.

13. What did people in Gandiol sometimes tell Mademba about Alfa?
(a) He was from an honorable family.
(b) He was disgraced because of what his mother had done.
(c) He would make a lot of money someday, and Mademba should keep Alfa on his side for this reason.
(d) He was a demm, consuming all of Mademba's strength for himself.

14. What does Captain Armand order the other soldiers to do with the traitorous ones?
(a) Cut their tongues out.
(b) Cut their hands off.
(c) Tie their hands behind their backs.
(d) Cut their hair.

15. What does Captain Armand tell the traitorous soldiers they can have if they put themselves over the top of the trench to be killed by the enemy?
(a) A new pair of boots for each of their children.
(b) A Purple Heart.
(c) A military pension.
(d) A new helmet to be sent to their sons.