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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 119 - 145).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alfa do when Mademba goes to school?
(a) Build houses.
(b) Carry water from the village and to the village.
(c) Study law.
(d) Work in the fields.

2. How do the other soldiers react to Alfa when he comes back to the trench in Chapter II?
(a) They tell him he should have left Mademba's body behind.
(b) They welcome him as a hero.
(c) They shun him.
(d) They say a prayer for him.

3. What does Alfa think is necessary on the battlefield, as he narrates in Chapter VI?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Madness.
(c) Food.
(d) Empathy.

4. Who challenges the village chief when the chief wants Gandiol to only grow one crop?
(a) Mademba's mother.
(b) Alfa's mother.
(c) Alfa's father.
(d) Mademba's father.

5. 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) Dirt.
(c) A sharpened rat bone.
(d) A dye made from flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alfa claim he reeks of?

2. What does the Fula nomads' proverb say, according to Alfa?

3. What does Alfa do with the severed hands in the recuperation center?

4. Why does Alfa think Fary sleeps with him before he goes to war?

5. Who is Mademba's father?

(see the answer key)

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