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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator believe it is useless to try to revive the person in question 5?
(a) Because that person should die for sins commited.
(b) Because death is an act of fate.
(c) Because this hospital has no electric paddles.
(d) Because it is this person's second heart attack this year.

3. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?
(a) She didn't know about it.
(b) She thought it was wonderful.
(c) She disapproved of it at first.
(d) She was not alive at the time.

4. How many years has the narrator been married to the deceased?
(a) 55
(b) 30
(c) 1
(d) 22

5. What is the difference between the narrator's friends and fellow teachers versus her in-laws?
(a) Her in-laws belong to a different political party from her friends.
(b) Her in-laws are from Kenya, not Senegal.
(c) Her friends are modern-minded; whereas the in-laws stick to tradition.
(d) She is able to relax with them, which she can't do with her in-laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What field is Modou's degree?

2. How many children did the second wife bear the deceased?

3. What had the deceased bought to please his second wife?

4. What does Mawdo, Aissatou's husband, admire about his father-in-law?

5. What does the narrator have to put up with regularly?

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