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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 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.

2. How does Alfa describe Captain Armand physically?
(a) He is a small man with peaceful eyes.
(b) He is a large man with calm eyes.
(c) He is a small man with eyes that look enraged.
(d) He is an average man with nondescript eyes.

3. Who is the doctor treating Alfa at the Rear?
(a) Doctor Detrande.
(b) Doctor Armand.
(c) Doctor Francois.
(d) Doctor Henri.

4. Who is Mademba's father?
(a) Davi Diop.
(b) Marshall Diop.
(c) Sire Diop.
(d) Harvre Diop.

5. Why did Mademba want to go to war?
(a) He wanted to earn the respect of his father, also a war veteran.
(b) He wanted to earn the respect of the girl he loved in the village.
(c) He wanted to help save the "motherland," France.
(d) He wanted to avenge his own brother's death in Europe.

6. What did Alfa's father once tell him about laughter?
(a) You can laugh with someone, but not at someone.
(b) Laughter is God's medicine.
(c) Only children and fools laugh without reason.
(d) Laughter does not do anyone any good.

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

8. What does Alfa think Fary Thiam started doing before he did?
(a) Building houses.
(b) Thinking for herself.
(c) Having sex.
(d) Reading.

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

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

11. Who is Alfa trying to avenge in Chapter XII?
(a) His father.
(b) His sister.
(c) Jean-Baptiste.
(d) His mother.

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

13. How does Alfa think he can tell that the woman at the hospital in the Rear is attracted to him?
(a) She tells him he looks like her late husband.
(b) She tells him she wants to sleep with him.
(c) She tells him he is handsome.
(d) By reading it in her eyes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Alfa and Mademba fantasize about living after the war?

2. How does Afla store the hands he has severed?

3. What do the soldiers seem to think about Jean-Baptiste and the hand he stole?

4. Who adopts Alfa when his mother does not return?

5. What slang term do Alfa's fellow soldiers use for the Germans?

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