So Long a Letter Short Question Test Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapters 1-3

1. What is the narrator's state of mind at the opening of the book?

Distraught.

2. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?

Her friend, Aissatou.

3. What is the first thing the narrator says in her letter?

That she lost her husband today.

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

Her dead husband covered in a white sheet.

5. Who suffers a heart attack?

Modou.

6. Why does the narrator believe it is useless to try to revive the person in question 5?

Because death is an act of fate.

7. Who discusses the mysteries of birth and death with the narrator?

Dr. Mawdo Bw.

8. What do the female relatives do for the deceased?

Wash the dead person's body.

9. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?

The dead person's co-wife.

10. What...
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