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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 Camara's mother light up his bed?
(a) With a match.
(b) With an oil lamp.
(c) With a flashlight.
(d) With a torch.

2. Who is Marie?
(a) A student at the girls' high school.
(b) A student at the girl's middle school.
(c) A student at Camara's school.
(d) A former student at the girls' high school.

3. Who gives the boys a handkerchief for their ceremony of circumcision?
(a) Their sister.
(b) Their aunt.
(c) Their sweetheart.
(d) Their mother.

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

5. What is the quality of the instruction in Camara's school when he returns to it?
(a) Excellent.
(b) Poor.
(c) Funny.
(d) Uninteresting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Camara pedal to with Marie?

2. Why do the boys stay in a special hut after their circumcision?

3. Who gathers the boys to take them away for their teenage ritual?

4. How does Camara feel about the transition from childhood to manhood?

5. What does Camara notice each time he returns home for vacation?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does the director of the Technical College ask Camara before he leaves Conakry upon successfully completing his exams, and what is Camara's reaction?

4. How has Camara's hut in Kouroussa changed when he comes home for vacation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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