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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 Check feel about summer he and Kouyate are having while waiting for teaching jobs?
(a) Sad.
(b) Energetic.
(c) Happy.
(d) Exhausted.

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

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

4. What do the older boys and men do after the procession?
(a) They sing.
(b) They go home.
(c) They drink and eat.
(d) They stay out for the night.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the other boys feel when Camara puts Marie on his bicycle?

3. Why does Camara's mother often get up in the middle of the night?

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

5. What does the director in Conakry give Camara before he leaves the country?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the friendship between Camara and his two friends, Kouyate and Check.

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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. 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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