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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 the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?
(a) If she might find a man to marry among them.
(b) Whose grief is genuine.
(c) How much each person will donate.
(d) If any were an enemy of the deceased.

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 disapproved of it at first.
(c) She didn't know about it.
(d) She thought it was wonderful.

3. In Modou's letters to the narrator while getting his degree, for what did he say he longed?
(a) Enough money to come home and visit.
(b) For the narrator's presence and black complexion.
(c) A home-cooked meal.
(d) His family and friends.

4. To what does the narrator compare teachers?
(a) Slaves from the Roman times.
(b) An army of priests-in charge of people's souls.
(c) Socrates and Aristotole.
(d) Evangelical ministers.

5. What is the traditional contribution for funeral expenses from others?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Agricultural produce.
(c) Crafts to sell at market.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find when she rushes to the hospital?

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

3. What reasons does the narrator give for Modou's taking a second wife?

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

5. How many years has the second wife been married to the deceased?

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