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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 does Alfa begin to think almost as soon as Mademba is dead?
(a) That he should have slit Mademba's throat to put him out of his misery.
(b) That he should have fed Mademba.
(c) That he should have taken Mademba on an airplane home.
(d) That he should have performed his magic above Mademba.

2. What does Jean-Baptiste do with the hand he steals from Alfa?
(a) Puts it on a German flag to humiliate the Germans.
(b) Buries it.
(c) Wraps it in bandages and sticks it to his helmet.
(d) Burns it.

3. Which of the following phrases about God does Alfa repeat throughout Part I?
(a) God's light.
(b) God's truth.
(c) God, who cannot hear me.
(d) God knows well.

4. What color eyes do Alfa's enemy soldiers always have?
(a) Grey.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

5. In Chapter X, what does Alfa know for sure he himself is not, even if everyone else seems to think he is?
(a) An idiot.
(b) A very strong man.
(c) A sorcerer.
(d) A good friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another word Alfa thinks people now think of him as, in the wake of Mademba's death?

2. What does Alfa do to preserve the hands he severs?

3. How does Alfa repeatedly refer to Mademba Diop?

4. What does Alfa imagine the Germans did for the person who killed Jean-Baptiste?

5. When do Alfa's trenchmates begin to really fear him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Alfa always kill the German soldiers he kills after Mademba's death?

3. What phrase does Alfa Ndiaye begin repeating immediately in Part I?

4. What does Alfa suspect about Sack's translation to him from Captain Armand?

5. What does Alfa often see in his enemy's eyes before he kills him?

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

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

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

9. What does Captain Armand want Alfa to do in Part II?

10. What was all Alfa could think about when he stayed with Mademba during Mademba's last hours?

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