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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 30 - 58).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Alfa's only real white friend among his fellow soldiers?
(a) Roland.
(b) Ibrahima.
(c) Jean-Baptiste.
(d) Jean-Luc.

2. Who does Alfa believe his thoughts belong to?
(a) Mademba.
(b) His commander.
(c) Him alone.
(d) His mother.

3. What does the voice inside Alfa's head tell him as he stayed with Mademba when Mademba was dying?
(a) To kill Mademba.
(b) To respect his mother's wishes and only to kill enemy soldiers.
(c) Not to kill Mademba and play God.
(d) To run away and leave the war.

4. Who translates the words of Captain Armand for Alfa?
(a) Horatio.
(b) Mademba.
(c) Jean-Baptiste.
(d) Ibrahima Seck.

5. Where does Alfa get the idea of how to preserve his severed hands?
(a) From the dried meat they eat in the trenches.
(b) From how they dried fish in his village, Gandiol.
(c) From the tobacco leaves all the other soldiers hang from the rafters.
(d) From the dried sheep his first wife taught him how to cure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa always come back to the trenches with after Mademba dies?

2. What work of Pascal Quignard's does Diop reference in the beginning of Part I?

3. What does Alfa think "the Captain's France" requires of him and other Black soldiers?

4. What phrase does Alfa end Chapter III with?

5. What is a totem, according to Alfa?

(see the answer key)

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