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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the occupation of Aissatou's father?
(a) Politician.
(b) Blacksmith.
(c) Physician.
(d) Painter.

4. What did the narrator's mother think of Modou?
(a) He was too good to be true.
(b) He wouldn't be a good provider.
(c) He was kind and generous.
(d) He was ugly.

5. What do the female relatives do for the deceased?
(a) Wail while walking around the outside of the home.
(b) Wash the dead person's body.
(c) Light the funeral pyre.
(d) Cover their heads with yellow cloth for two weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?

2. What, in the narrator's opinion, does modernity do?

3. What is the mirasse?

4. According to the narrator, what is the purpose of teaching?

5. Why is the narrator upset about the sister-in-laws song?

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