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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 does Camara's mother do right before he leaves home?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She cries.
(c) She hugs him.
(d) She falls to the ground.

2. When do the young boys face the real test of circumcision?
(a) In their final year of school.
(b) When they enter high school.
(c) In their second to last year of school.
(d) When they finish school.

3. Who accompanies Camara to the airport?
(a) Marie.
(b) Mamadou and Marie.
(c) Mamadou.
(d) Camara's parents.

4. What do the guests shower the boys with during the circumcision ceremony?
(a) Handkerchiefs.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Water.
(d) Gifts.

5. What kind of landscape does Camara see that he has never seen before while on the train to Conakry?
(a) Waterfalls.
(b) Foothills.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Deserts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Camara and Marie like to do?

2. When does Camara leave home?

3. What is hanging from the bombax trees and huts when the sun comes up after the Ceremony of the Lions?

4. When does the tom-tom begin to beat for the rite of passage?

5. How long will the boys stay in a special hut after the circumcision?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Camara's parents initially react to his news about going to Paris?

2. What happens during the first year Camara is supposed to attend school in Conakry?

3. What happens when Camara and his father go to talk to Camara's mother again, hoping to convince her to let Camara finish his studies in Paris?

4. What happens towards the middle of the night when the initial procession around town finishes?

5. What happens at the airport and on the plane to France?

6. When Camara returns to Conakry in October, what does he find out about the Technical College, the school he attended the year before?

7. What happens in the special hut where the young men are gathered, after the actual circumcision takes place?

8. Who or what is Konden Diara? What does Camara's father tell him to do?

9. When Camara is a teenager, he must prepare for his culture's important rite of passage: circumcision. How and when does his ritual begin? How does Camara feel about it?

10. Describe the character of Mamadou.

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