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

2. Who asks Camara if he would like to go abroad to finish his studies?
(a) Marie.
(b) Camara's favorite teacher.
(c) The director of Camara's school.
(d) Camara's uncle.

3. Who talks to Camara's mother about his desire to study abroad in hopes of convincing her that it is a good idea?
(a) Camara's uncle.
(b) Camara.
(c) Camara and his father.
(d) Camara's father.

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

5. Why does Camara return to Kouroussa after completing his final exams?
(a) To celebrate his school success.
(b) To be with his friends.
(c) To worry about his mother.
(d) To eat and drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Camara leave home?

2. Who is Mamadou?

3. Who is Konden Diara?

4. What type of emotion is outwardly manifested during the circumcision ceremony?

5. Why does Camara's mother find it difficult to understand why he wants more schooling?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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