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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 say when Captain Armand wants to know where his severed hands are?
(a) He says he buried them and does not remember where they are.
(b) He says he lost them.
(c) He says God took them because he was unhappy with Alfa.
(d) He says he bartered them.

2. What does Alfa think of Captain Armand's treatment of the traitorous soldiers?
(a) He thinks it is just like what his father would have done in a similar situation.
(b) He has never seen anything so ugly.
(c) He thinks it is just.
(d) He thinks he can put it right if he uses his own magic.

3. What does Alfa use to create the entity he hopes will warn people off his hiding place for the hands?
(a) A sharpened rat bone.
(b) A steel blade.
(c) Dirt.
(d) A dye made from flowers.

4. Why should soldiers not smoke in a war, according to Alfa?
(a) It helps the enemy see where the soldiers are.
(b) It uses too much lighter fluid.
(c) It is bad for their health.
(d) It is bad for morale.

5. What does Alfa think the war has done to him in Chapter XIV?
(a) Made him a sorcerer.
(b) Made him grow up all at once.
(c) Made him a hero.
(d) Made him a coward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did people in Gandiol avoid walking at night near the river?

2. What does Alfa compare his doctor to?

3. What did the chief of Alfa's old village once propose that the village grow exclusively?

4. In Chapter XIV, how does Alfa feel about being in the Rear?

5. How does Afla store the hands he has severed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Alfa think Mademoiselle Francois likes him?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Alfa come to believe about God's role in what happens in war in Part III?

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

8. Why do the soldiers in Alfa's unit decide to disobey Captain Armand in Part III?

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

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

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