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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 think about his own physical appearance?
(a) He is weak and not attractive.
(b) He is average-looking.
(c) He is too short to be considered attractive by western standards, but he is attractive in his own village.
(d) He is strong and handsome.

2. What tribe was Alfa's maternal grandfather from?
(a) Fula.
(b) Fenduli.
(c) Hitsu.
(d) Marka.

3. How does Alfa quickly begin to feel about the German soldier he kills in Chapter XII?
(a) He is suspicious of him.
(b) He feels nothing towards him.
(c) He pities him.
(d) He despises him.

4. Who is Alfa's maternal grandfather?
(a) Hero Ma.
(b) Farmo Fa.
(c) Yoro Ba.
(d) Levo Ta.

5. What does Alfa think of his doctor, as he articulates his feelings in Chapter XVI?
(a) He is a good man.
(b) He seems completely untroubled by all the wounds he has seen from the war.
(c) He might not actually be a doctor, considering how ill at ease he is around blood.
(d) He is a negligent man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa think Fary Thiam started doing before he did?

2. What does Alfa remember about the night he lost his virginity to Fary Thiam?

3. How old were Alfa and Fary when they had their sexual encounter?

4. Who is the leader of the revolt against Captain Armand?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How were Mademba and Alfa different?

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

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

6. What are the circumstances of Alfa's first sexual experience with a woman?

7. What is the first thing Alfa draws for the doctor?

8. Why does Yoro Ba want to "give" Alfa's mother to his father in marriage?

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

10. Why does Alfa suspect his father lets him be adopted by another family?

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