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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 is the doctor's personality like?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Suspicious.
(d) Angry.

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

3. What does Captain Armand tell the traitorous soldiers they can have if they put themselves over the top of the trench to be killed by the enemy?
(a) A military pension.
(b) A new helmet to be sent to their sons.
(c) A new pair of boots for each of their children.
(d) A Purple Heart.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Alfa's father once tell him about laughter?

2. Why do some white soldiers say they will stop obeying the captain?

3. What does Alfa think of Captain Armand's treatment of the traitorous soldiers?

4. Who is Mademba's father?

5. What does the doctor have Alfa and the others do to help them through their trauma?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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