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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?
(a) The dead person's co-wife.
(b) The deceased male relatives.
(c) The shamen of the tribe.
(d) All the children from all the wives.

2. How many children did the second wife bear the deceased?
(a) 3
(b) 1
(c) 0
(d) 9

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

4. What does the narrator do to Modou about his second marriage?
(a) She forgives him.
(b) She gives him an ultimatum.
(c) She asks him to have it annulled.
(d) She pretends it didn't happen.

5. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?
(a) Because her future husband is blackmailing her.
(b) Her great-Aunt who did the same.
(c) What she learns in school.
(d) She is pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the narrator and her friends feel about being teachers?

2. To whom do the wives give money?

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

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

5. Who tells the narrator of Binetou's generous "sugar daddy"?

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