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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who carries Afla's mother in the canoe part of the way on her journey?
(a) Mademba.
(b) Ndiaga.
(c) Yoro Ba.
(d) Fary Thiam.

2. How does Afla store the hands he has severed?
(a) Just as they were when he took them from the bodies.
(b) In formaldehyde.
(c) In vinegar.
(d) Dried and wrapped in cloth.

3. How does Alfa quickly begin to feel about the German soldier he kills in Chapter XII?
(a) He feels nothing towards him.
(b) He is suspicious of him.
(c) He despises him.
(d) He pities him.

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

5. What is the first thing Mademba draws for the doctor?
(a) A self-portrait.
(b) A portrait of Mademba.
(c) A portrait of his father.
(d) A portrait of his mother.

6. Who was the most desirable young girl in Gandiol?
(a) Fary Thiam.
(b) Henrietta Lam.
(c) Mary Bo.
(d) Penndo Hero.

7. Who does Alfa lose his virginity to?
(a) Mademoiselle Henri.
(b) Penndo Hero.
(c) Mary Ba.
(d) Fary Thiam.

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

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

10. What does the Fula nomads' proverb say, according to Alfa?
(a) Red sky at night, sailor's delight.
(b) At dawn you can already know if the day will be good or bad.
(c) Sometimes you bite the tiger, sometimes the tiger bites you.
(d) A penny saved is a penny earned.

11. What is the second drawing Alfa makes for the doctor?
(a) Mademba.
(b) His father.
(c) Jean-Baptiste.
(d) Fary Thiam.

12. What does Alfa compare his extraction of a German soldier from his trench in Part XII to?
(a) Extracting a seed from a pod.
(b) Extracting a tiny baby from his mother's belly.
(c) Extracting a fish from the river.
(d) Extracting a rabbit from a hole.

13. What does Alfa suspect about Seck's translation of Captain Armand's directions to Alfa?
(a) Seck does not really speak the Captain's langauge very well.
(b) Seck does not really speak Alfa's language very well.
(c) Seck is translating word for word.
(d) Seck is leaving out some things Captain Armand is saying.

14. What alias does Alfa jokingly suggest to Mademba that Mademba could use if he became a wrestler?
(a) Turtledove Chest.
(b) Solitary Lion.
(c) Peacock.
(d) Hulk.

15. Why did people in Gandiol avoid walking at night near the river?
(a) It was too cold by the water.
(b) For fear of alligators.
(c) For fear of the goddess Mame Coumba Bang.
(d) For fear of snakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa use to create the entity he hopes will warn people off his hiding place for the hands?

2. Who does one of the first soldiers to go out of the trench with his hands tied call out to in his last moment?

3. How does Alfa help Mademba prepare for war enough so that he will be accepted into the army?

4. What does Alfa compare his doctor to?

5. Who is Alfa trying to avenge in Chapter XII?

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