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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. How does Captain Armand signal to his own men that an attack is about to begin?
(a) His hand sign.
(b) His trumpet.
(c) His whistle.
(d) His fingers snapping.

2. Why do the soldiers in Alfa's unit laugh when he sings?
(a) He sings off-key.
(b) He sings in French.
(c) He sings beautifully, and they are embarrassed.
(d) He sings in a high voice.

3. What is the Diop totem?
(a) An alligator.
(b) A panther.
(c) A peacock.
(d) An elephant.

4. What does Alfa think "the Captain's France" requires of him and other Black soldiers?
(a) For them to go first and into the most dangerous territory in battle.
(b) For them to "play the savage" when it is required of them.
(c) For them to write a lot of letters home telling their people everything is OK.
(d) For them to eat as much as possible.

5. How do the Germans kill Jean-Baptiste?
(a) They stab him.
(b) They shoot his head clean off.
(c) They hang him.
(d) They run over him with a tank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa think his fellow soldiers prefer to think might kill them?

2. Why was it particularly dangerous for Alfa to do what he did with Mademba's body in Chapter II?

3. What does Alfa do with Mademba's body after he dies?

4. What does Alfa claim he reeks of?

5. When does Alfa always kill the enemy soldiers he kills?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alfa say he becomes when he goes out to seek the vengeance on German's for Mademba's death?

2. What is Alfa's relationship with Jean-Baptiste?

3. What does Mademba ask Alfa to do as Mademba lays mortally wounded on the battlefield?

4. How does Mademba Diop die?

5. What does Alfa let the reader know, through his narration, about the way his best friend Mademba died?

6. Why do Alfa's own soldiers begin to fear and avoid him after he brings home the fourth severed hand?

7. Why does Jean-Baptiste decide to goad the enemy into killing him?

8. How does Alfa repeatedly refer to Mademba in the narration?

9. Why does Alfa think both the Germans and his own allied soldiers flee from him?

10. Why does Alfa think the mad are useful on the battlefield?

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