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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Alfa think Captain Armand sees him?
(a) As someone who should never have left his job as a coal miner.
(b) As someone to be feared because of his powers of sorcery.
(c) As someone who could help him win the war in the right circumstances.
(d) As someone who could spoil all his ambitions in the war.

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

3. What does Alfa use to create the entity he hopes will warn people off his hiding place for the hands?
(a) Dirt.
(b) A steel blade.
(c) A sharpened rat bone.
(d) A dye made from flowers.

4. What does the doctor have Alfa and the others do to help them through their trauma?
(a) Draw.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sing.
(d) Watch television.

5. What language did Mademba know how to speak that Alfa does not know how to speak?
(a) French.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Russian.
(d) Spanish.

6. In Chapter XIV, how does Alfa feel about being in the Rear?
(a) Angry.
(b) Suspicious.
(c) Anxious.
(d) At ease.

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

8. Where do Alfa and Mademba fantasize about living after the war?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Saint-Louis.
(d) New York City.

9. What does Alfa think about his own physical appearance?
(a) He is weak and not attractive.
(b) He is too short to be considered attractive by western standards, but he is attractive in his own village.
(c) He is average-looking.
(d) He is strong and handsome.

10. Why does everyone smile at Alfa in the recuperation center?
(a) They like his jokes.
(b) He smiles at them first.
(c) They are afraid of him.
(d) They think is hair is funny.

11. 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 helmet to be sent to their sons.
(b) A military pension.
(c) A new pair of boots for each of their children.
(d) A Purple Heart.

12. Why do some white soldiers say they will stop obeying the captain?
(a) They think his whistle signals the enemy of their approach, increasing their mortal danger.
(b) They think the captain drinks too much.
(c) They think the captain has lost the confidence of the general.
(d) The think the captain is a spy.

13. What term does Alfa use to describe all the white soldiers?
(a) Armand.
(b) Tirald.
(c) Toubab.
(d) Timpand.

14. What happens to Alfa's father when Alfa's mother disappears?
(a) He burns all his own farmland.
(b) He tells Alfa to go off and make a living for himself.
(c) He ages even more rapidly.
(d) He kills himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Alfa's maternal grandfather?

3. What is the doctor's personality like?

4. What does Alfa put on the trunk where he keeps the severed hands to keep people out of it?

5. Who was the chief of Alfa's old village?

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