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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the Diop totem?
(a) An elephant.
(b) An alligator.
(c) A panther.
(d) A peacock.
2. What does Alfa do to preserve the hands he severs?
(a) Buries them.
(b) Puts them in clay pots.
(c) Coats them in salt.
(d) Washes them.
3. What does Jean-Baptiste do with the hand he steals from Alfa?
(a) Buries it.
(b) Puts it on a German flag to humiliate the Germans.
(c) Burns it.
(d) Wraps it in bandages and sticks it to his helmet.
4. How does Alfa sometimes refer to himself in Part II?
(a) The second son of the second son.
(b) The seventh child of the sixth child.
(c) The romulan.
(d) The youngest child of the old man.
5. When do Alfa's trenchmates begin to really fear him?
(a) After he brings back the fourth hand of the enemy.
(b) After he starts talking to his dead mother.
(c) After he starts writing spells in his journal.
(d) After he starts praying all the time.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Alfa begin to think almost as soon as Mademba is dead?
2. What does the voice inside Alfa's head tell him about his role in Mademba's death that continues to haunt him?
3. In Chapter X, what does Alfa know for sure he himself is not, even if everyone else seems to think he is?
4. Who translates the words of Captain Armand for Alfa?
5. What does Alfa think is necessary on the battlefield, as he narrates in Chapter VI?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Alfa's relationship with Jean-Baptiste?
2. What was the purpose of the joking relationship between Alfa and Mademba?
3. What does Alfa say he becomes when he goes out to seek the vengeance on German's for Mademba's death?
4. Why does Alfa think the mad are useful on the battlefield?
5. What does Alfa notice about Ibrahima Sack's translations for Captain Armand to Alfa in Part II?
6. Why does Alfa think both the Germans and his own allied soldiers flee from him?
7. What does Alfa do as a sign of honor for Mademba immediately after Mademba's death?
8. Why does Alfa receive the Croix de Guerre, a medal of honor?
9. What is the cultural attitude from Alfa's culture towards the symbol of a totem?
10. How does Mademba Diop die?
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