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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. Who is Alfa's best friend?
(a) Mademba Diop.
(b) Jean-Baptiste.
(c) Captain Armand.
(d) Moby.
2. What causes a major change in Jean-Baptiste?
(a) Seeing his best friend die.
(b) His receipt of a perfumed letter.
(c) His loss of one of his feet.
(d) His backfiring of his rifle.
3. Where does Alfa get the idea of how to preserve his severed hands?
(a) From the dried meat they eat in the trenches.
(b) From how they dried fish in his village, Gandiol.
(c) From the tobacco leaves all the other soldiers hang from the rafters.
(d) From the dried sheep his first wife taught him how to cure.
4. What phrase does Alfa end Chapter III with?
(a) Revenge is righteous.
(b) I know, I understand.
(c) God knows his plan.
(d) At night, all blood is black.
5. Who wrote, "We embraced each other by our names?"
(a) Byron.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Montaigne.
(d) Joyce.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Alfa understand that Captain Armand wants on the battlefield, but not back in the trenches?
2. What does Captain Armand wish to know the location of in Chapter VIII from Alfa?
3. In what way does Mademba actually die?
4. Why do the soldiers in Alfa's unit laugh when he sings?
5. Where do the soldiers Alfa kills in the night always come out of?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do Alfa's own soldiers begin to fear and avoid him after he brings home the fourth severed hand?
2. What does Alfa do as a sign of honor for Mademba immediately after Mademba's death?
3. How does Alfa always kill the German soldiers he kills after Mademba's death?
4. What does Alfa really think about Captain Armand's praise for Black soldiers?
5. Why does Jean-Baptiste decide to goad the enemy into killing him?
6. Why does Alfa think both the Germans and his own allied soldiers flee from him?
7. What was all Alfa could think about when he stayed with Mademba during Mademba's last hours?
8. What does Alfa let the reader know, through his narration, about the way his best friend Mademba died?
9. What does Captain Armand want Alfa to do in Part II?
10. Why does Alfa think the mad are useful on the battlefield?
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