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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 89 - 118).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Germans kill Jean-Baptiste?
(a) They shoot his head clean off.
(b) They hang him.
(c) They stab him.
(d) They run over him with a tank.

2. What do the villagers believe happened to Alfa's mother on her journey?
(a) She was killed by robbers.
(b) She drowned.
(c) She was kidnapped by slave traders.
(d) She died of thirst.

3. Who does one of the first soldiers to go out of the trench with his hands tied call out to in his last moment?
(a) Claire.
(b) Odette.
(c) Monique.
(d) Maronette.

4. What does Captain Armand wish to know the location of in Chapter VIII from Alfa?
(a) His money.
(b) His uniform.
(c) His crown.
(d) The severed hands.

5. How does Alfa think Captain Armand really feels about war?
(a) He looks at it as just a job.
(b) He looks at it as his destiny because all the men in his family were soldiers too.
(c) He loves it.
(d) He abhors it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the doctor's personality like?

2. What does Alfa compare his extraction of a German soldier from his trench in Part XII to?

3. What does Alfa hear the night he approaches the German trenches to avenge Jean-Baptiste's death?

4. Why does Alfa's maternal grandfather like his own father so much?

5. What does Alfa think the Captain and his fellow soldiers hope will happen to him when he returns to the Front from the Rear?

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