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

2. What does Alfa think about the owner of the fourth hand that he kills?
(a) He seems as if he has brutality in him.
(b) He is probably the one who killed Jean-Baptiste.
(c) He seems like a "good boy," an innocent.
(d) He is probably the one who killed Mademba.

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

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

5. What happens to Alfa's father when Alfa's mother disappears?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) He burns all his own farmland.
(c) He tells Alfa to go off and make a living for himself.
(d) He ages even more rapidly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa think the Captain and his fellow soldiers hope will happen to him when he returns to the Front from the Rear?

2. What does Alfa say Mademba Diop looked like?

3. How does Alfa think Captain Armand really feels about war?

4. Who is the first love of Alfa's?

5. What does Captain Armand tell the traitorous soldiers they can have if they put themselves over the top of the trench to be killed by the enemy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Alfa suspect his father did not let him go with Penndo Ba when she left?

2. What method does Doctor Francois use to help patients work through their trauma?

3. What does Alfa do to make sure no one finds his severed hands?

4. What did Alfa do to try to catch the person who killed his friend Jean-Baptiste?

5. Why does Penndo Ba leave Alfa's father?

6. What is one convention of romantic relationships in Gandiol?

7. What does Alfa bring to the hospital with him, and why?

8. Why does Captain Armand tell Alfa he looked the other way at first when Alfa brought the severed hands back?

9. Who takes Alfa in after his mother leaves and fails to return?

10. What is the relationship between Penndo Ba and Alfa's father like?

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