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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Daouda Dieng?
(a) The boy her mother prefers over Modou.
(b) The head of the police in Senegal.
(c) The narrator's maternal uncle.
(d) The narrator's brother.

2. Why is the narrator upset about the donations from the people?
(a) The people do not donate very much.
(b) Most people decline to donate?
(c) The people resent donating.
(d) It's too late to save others with needed medications.

3. What, in the narrator's opinion, does modernity do?
(a) It increases live births.
(b) It signifies the slow death of traditional trades.
(c) It causes immoral behavior among the young people.
(d) It improves the country immensely.

4. To what does the narrator compare teachers?
(a) Slaves from the Roman times.
(b) Socrates and Aristotole.
(c) An army of priests-in charge of people's souls.
(d) Evangelical ministers.

5. Who suffers a heart attack?
(a) Iba.
(b) Samba Diack.
(c) Mawdo Bâ.
(d) Modou.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and her friends do at their house parties?

2. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?

3. What is a test feared by Senegalese women?

4. What does the narrator find when she rushes to the hospital?

5. How many children does the woman bear the deceased?

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