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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 does Alfa's maternal grandfather like his own father so much?
(a) Alfa's father let his maternal grandfather water his herd on his land.
(b) Alfa's father loaned his maternal grandfather money.
(c) Alfa's father was his maternal grandfather's priest.
(d) Alfa's father saved his maternal grandfather from drowning.

2. What do the villagers believe happened to Alfa's mother on her journey?
(a) She was killed by robbers.
(b) She was kidnapped by slave traders.
(c) She drowned.
(d) She died of thirst.

3. What does Alfa say Mademba Diop looked like?
(a) He was too tall to be considered handsome by western standards.
(b) He was average.
(c) He was weak, small, and ugly.
(d) He was strong and attractive.

4. Where do Alfa and Mademba fantasize about living after the war?
(a) Saint-Louis.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) New York City.

5. Who adopts Alfa when his mother does not return?
(a) Fary Thiam's family.
(b) His own aunt.
(c) Mademba's mother, Aminata Sarr.
(d) His grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What tribe was Alfa's maternal grandfather from?

3. How does Alfa quickly begin to feel about the German soldier he kills in Chapter XII?

4. What term does Alfa use to describe all the white soldiers?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Alfa think Mademoiselle Francois likes him?

7. How were Mademba and Alfa different?

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

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

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

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