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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. How does Afla store the hands he has severed?
(a) Just as they were when he took them from the bodies.
(b) Dried and wrapped in cloth.
(c) In formaldehyde.
(d) In vinegar.

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

3. How does Alfa think he can tell that the woman at the hospital in the Rear is attracted to him?
(a) She tells him she wants to sleep with him.
(b) She tells him he looks like her late husband.
(c) She tells him he is handsome.
(d) By reading it in her eyes.

4. In Chapter XVII, who does Alfa briefly fantasize about visiting revenge on for what happened to his mother?
(a) The Hustis.
(b) The Fulus.
(c) The Fistus.
(d) The Moors.

5. Who does Alfa think is attracted to him at the Rear?
(a) Mademoiselle Francois.
(b) Mademoiselle Henri.
(c) Mademoiselle Armand.
(d) Mademoiselle Detrande.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language did Mademba know how to speak that Alfa does not know how to speak?

2. How does Alfa describe his mother's and father's relationship?

3. How does Alfa describe Captain Armand physically?

4. Who was the most desirable young girl in Gandiol?

5. Who is Alfa's maternal grandfather?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alfa think the war has done to him, as he explains in Part III?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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