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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. Why did people in Gandiol avoid walking at night near the river?
(a) For fear of the goddess Mame Coumba Bang.
(b) For fear of snakes.
(c) For fear of alligators.
(d) It was too cold by the water.

2. What does the Fula nomads' proverb say, according to Alfa?
(a) Red sky at night, sailor's delight.
(b) A penny saved is a penny earned.
(c) Sometimes you bite the tiger, sometimes the tiger bites you.
(d) At dawn you can already know if the day will be good or bad.

3. What term does Alfa use to describe all the white soldiers?
(a) Toubab.
(b) Armand.
(c) Tirald.
(d) Timpand.

4. What does Alfa think the Captain and his fellow soldiers hope will happen to him when he returns to the Front from the Rear?
(a) He will be taken by another sorcerer.
(b) He will decide to desert the army.
(c) He will kill himself.
(d) The Germans will kill him.

5. How does Alfa help Mademba prepare for war enough so that he will be accepted into the army?
(a) By training him with a sword and feeding him a lot of food to help him gain weight.
(b) By showing him how to use a rifle.
(c) By reading him war stories.
(d) By showing him movies of war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the villagers believe happened to Alfa's mother on her journey?

2. What alias does Alfa jokingly suggest to Mademba that Mademba could use if he became a wrestler?

3. What does Alfa compare his extraction of a German soldier from his trench in Part XII to?

4. What is the doctor's personality like?

5. What happens to Alfa's father when Alfa's mother disappears?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Alfa's father when Penndo Ba fails to return?

4. What does Alfa think his fellow soldiers think of his intellect?

5. What does Captain Armand do when the soldiers disobey him?

6. Why does everyone think Penndo Ba never returned to Gandiol?

7. How does Afla think he wins over Doctor Francois at the hospital?

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

9. How were Mademba and Alfa different?

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

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