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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the deceased give Lady Mother-in-Law when he desires to marry Binetou?
(a) A signed paper in which he committed to paying Binetou a monthly salary.
(b) Three cows and a bull.
(c) A new home.
(d) A trip to Europe.

3. What is the first thing the narrator says in her letter?
(a) That she has moved to Canada.
(b) That her eldest daughter is dead.
(c) That she lost her husband today.
(d) That she has just had a baby boy.

4. What is Daouda Dieng's occupation?
(a) Professor.
(b) Physician.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Herdsman.

5. What keeps Mawdo busy as a physician?
(a) The AIDS epidemic.
(b) The population boom.
(c) Finding a cure for sickle cell anemia.
(d) people People now prefer western medicine to the traditional medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the family's response to the narrator's non-traditional simple wedding ceremony?

2. Why does Modou gain many promotions in his job?

3. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?

4. What is Aunty Nabou's goal in raising her niece?

5. What do the participants donate to this person's funeral?

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