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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. What does Alfa think Fary Thiam started doing before he did?
(a) Having sex.
(b) Building houses.
(c) Thinking for herself.
(d) Reading.

2. What does Alfa compare his doctor to?
(a) A drill sergeant.
(b) A chef.
(c) A village chief.
(d) A schoolmaster.

3. What does Alfa say when Captain Armand wants to know where his severed hands are?
(a) He says he buried them and does not remember where they are.
(b) He says he bartered them.
(c) He says God took them because he was unhappy with Alfa.
(d) He says he lost them.

4. What does Alfa use to create the entity he hopes will warn people off his hiding place for the hands?
(a) A steel blade.
(b) A sharpened rat bone.
(c) A dye made from flowers.
(d) Dirt.

5. What does Alfa wait for before trying to catch a German soldier in Chapter XII?
(a) For the soldiers to stop eating.
(b) For their singing to stop.
(c) For the moon to go behind a cloud.
(d) For his hands to stop shaking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes a major change in Jean-Baptiste?

2. Why do some white soldiers say they will stop obeying the captain?

3. How does Alfa quickly begin to feel about the German soldier he kills in Chapter XII?

4. What did people in Gandiol sometimes tell Mademba about Alfa?

5. What is another word Alfa thinks people now think of him as, in the wake of Mademba's death?

(see the answer key)

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