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

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

3. What did Alfa's father once tell him about laughter?
(a) Laughter does not do anyone any good.
(b) Only children and fools laugh without reason.
(c) Laughter is God's medicine.
(d) You can laugh with someone, but not at someone.

4. What does Alfa think about the owner of the fourth hand that he kills?
(a) He is probably the one who killed Mademba.
(b) He seems like a "good boy," an innocent.
(c) He seems as if he has brutality in him.
(d) He is probably the one who killed Jean-Baptiste.

5. 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 thinks it is just.
(c) He has never seen anything so ugly.
(d) He thinks he can put it right if he uses his own magic.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Captain Armand order the other soldiers to do with the traitorous ones?

4. Who is Alfa's maternal grandfather?

5. What does Alfa think of his doctor, as he articulates his feelings in Chapter XVI?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were Mademba and Alfa different?

2. Why does Alfa think Mademoiselle Francois likes him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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