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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daba produce when Lady Mother-in-Law wants the monthly salary continued?
(a) A box of jewelry for Mother-in-Law.
(b) Four witnesses that say Mother-in-Law abused the deceased.
(c) An affidavit with a list of what Binetou's villa contained.
(d) A court order doubling the amount.

2. To where does Aunty Nabou travel?
(a) Kenya.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Englands.
(d) Diakhao.

3. What does Aunty Nabou demand?
(a) That they provide her a small stipend to live on.
(b) That her brother help her discipline Mawdo.
(c) Enough money to move to the West Indies.
(d) To take little Nabou, her brother's daughter, back home with her.

4. How long does the narrator have to stay indoors after the funeral?
(a) She does not have to stay indoors.
(b) Three days.
(c) As long as it takes for her hair to grow long again.
(d) Four months and ten days.

5. When did the narrator realize that Modou was the man for her for life?
(a) When he held their first child in his arms.
(b) After he dies.
(c) When he asked her to marry him.
(d) During their first dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nabou feel about Mawdo?

2. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?

3. What did the narrator's mother think of Modou?

4. What is the mirasse?

5. What keeps Mawdo busy as a physician?

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