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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When did the narrator and her husband's romance blossom?
(a) After their third child was finally in school.
(b) Through their school years.
(c) They were not very romantic.
(d) The moment he saw her as a toddler.

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

5. Where did Modou go for a degree?
(a) The United States.
(b) Britian.
(c) France.
(d) South Africa.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?

4. When did the narrator realize that Modou was the man for her for life?

5. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?

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