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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 do some white soldiers say they will stop obeying the captain?
(a) They think his whistle signals the enemy of their approach, increasing their mortal danger.
(b) The think the captain is a spy.
(c) They think the captain has lost the confidence of the general.
(d) They think the captain drinks too much.

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

3. What alias does Alfa jokingly suggest to Mademba that Mademba could use if he became a wrestler?
(a) Solitary Lion.
(b) Peacock.
(c) Turtledove Chest.
(d) Hulk.

4. What does Alfa think Fary Thiam started doing before he did?
(a) Having sex.
(b) Reading.
(c) Thinking for herself.
(d) Building houses.

5. What does Alfa compare his extraction of a German soldier from his trench in Part XII to?
(a) Extracting a seed from a pod.
(b) Extracting a fish from the river.
(c) Extracting a rabbit from a hole.
(d) Extracting a tiny baby from his mother's belly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa suspect about Seck's translation of Captain Armand's directions to Alfa?

2. What does Alfa use to create the entity he hopes will warn people off his hiding place for the hands?

3. Why did people in Gandiol avoid walking at night near the river?

4. How does Alfa think he can tell that the woman at the hospital in the Rear is attracted to him?

5. How does Alfa describe Captain Armand physically?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How were Mademba and Alfa different?

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

9. Why does Alfa think Mademoiselle Francois likes him?

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

(see the answer keys)

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