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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 a test feared by Senegalese women?
(a) Their sisters-in-law have to take down the new widows' hair.
(b) A test to learn if a woman is pregnant.
(c) The widow(s) have to be branded.
(d) A ritual to discover if a woman is a virgin.

2. According to the narrator, what is the purpose of teaching?
(a) To get out of household chores.
(b) To influence the next generation of men.
(c) To earn an above-average salary.
(d) To shape young people's minds.

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

4. What is another secret revealed about the deceased?
(a) He made a pact with an Inman to send his son to England.
(b) He never legally married his second wife.
(c) He had four illegitimate children.
(d) He had abandoned his first wife (the narrator) and her children to live with Binetou.

5. Who does Aissatou marry?
(a) Daouda Dieng.
(b) Douda Raaw.
(c) Moudou.
(d) Mawdo Bw.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and her friends do at their house parties?

2. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?

3. What do the female relatives do for the deceased?

4. To whom do the wives give money?

5. What is the difference between the men and women during the gathering for the deceased?

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