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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the goal of the narrator's education?
(a) To enable her to home school her children.
(b) To make her attractive to men.
(c) To emancipate her from the traditional roles of African women.
(d) To earn a degree.

2. Where did Modou go for a degree?
(a) The United States.
(b) France.
(c) Britian.
(d) South Africa.

3. What had the deceased bought to please his second wife?
(a) Two thoroughbred horses for racing.
(b) A nice villa.
(c) A new mercedes benz.
(d) A diamond necklace.

4. What is the name of Modou's friend who Modou introduces to the narrator and her friends?
(a) Biku
(b) Mawdo Bw
(c) Memsab Nw
(d) Fawd Was

5. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?
(a) It is the reason she loses her teaching job.
(b) It is symbolic of the New Africa.
(c) It compels new laws granting women complete freedom.
(d) It is the first one to have ever taken place in Senegal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the mirasse?

2. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?

3. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?

4. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?

5. What is Daouda Dieng's occupation?

(see the answer key)

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