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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 kind of look is Camara's hut acquiring over time?
(a) An American look.
(b) An African look.
(c) A European look.
(d) An Asian look.

2. How do the other boys feel when Camara puts Marie on his bicycle?
(a) Comfortable.
(b) Happy.
(c) Sad.
(d) Jealous.

3. Camara's mother gives him a bottle of liquid good for what?
(a) The chest.
(b) The feet.
(c) The brain.
(d) The face.

4. The boys receive a handkerchief made of what for their circumcision ritual?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Silk.
(c) Plastic.
(d) Wool.

5. What type of emotion is outwardly manifested during the circumcision ceremony?
(a) Joyous.
(b) Unattractive.
(c) Boring.
(d) Sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will most boys become in the future?

2. In which country does Camara have an opportunity to finish his studies?

3. What does Camara do when he sits at the bonfire on the night of the ritual?

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

5. How does Camara feel about his mother's behavior each time he comes back home to find she has made improvements?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the boys spend the rest of the night of their rite of passage after the roaring ceases, and how does it end?

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

3. Camara does not like one of the behaviors his mother exhibits when he gets back home for vacation? Which behavior?

4. Following their encounter with Konden Diara, the young boys face the real test of circumcision. How does the ceremony in Kouroussa proceed?

5. What do the guests of the circumcision ceremony do to the teenage boys and how is this manifested to Camara? What is his reaction?

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

7. What happens on the way to and at the train station before fifteen year old Camara sets off to Conakry?

8. How do Camara and Marie spend time together as teenagers?

9. 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?

10. What happens in the special hut where the young men are gathered before the actual circumcision takes place?

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