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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 is the difference between the men and women during the gathering for the deceased?
(a) The women talk and the men are silent.
(b) The men are loud and boisterous while the women weep quietly.
(c) The men eat but the women do not.
(d) The men are dressed in native garb, but not the women.

2. Why does the narrator believe it is useless to try to revive the person in question 5?
(a) Because it is this person's second heart attack this year.
(b) Because death is an act of fate.
(c) Because this hospital has no electric paddles.
(d) Because that person should die for sins commited.

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

4. What had the deceased bought to please his second wife?
(a) A new mercedes benz.
(b) Two thoroughbred horses for racing.
(c) A nice villa.
(d) A diamond necklace.

5. What is the goal of the narrator's education?
(a) To emancipate her from the traditional roles of African women.
(b) To make her attractive to men.
(c) To enable her to home school her children.
(d) To earn a degree.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might one describe the culture of the Senegal people?

2. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?

3. What does Modou complain about in his letters?

4. What is a test feared by Senegalese women?

5. What does the narrator believe her in-laws do not understand?

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