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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator upset about the donations from the people?
(a) Most people decline to donate?
(b) It's too late to save others with needed medications.
(c) The people resent donating.
(d) The people do not donate very much.

2. How might one describe the culture of the Senegal people?
(a) Complex and difficult to understand.
(b) They don't really have a distinct culture separate from other African countries.
(c) Adaptable.
(d) Rigid.

3. When did the narrator realize that Modou was the man for her for life?
(a) When he asked her to marry him.
(b) After he dies.
(c) When he held their first child in his arms.
(d) During their first dance.

4. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?
(a) What she learns in school.
(b) Her great-Aunt who did the same.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) Because her future husband is blackmailing her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the narrator have to stay indoors after the funeral?

2. What did the narrator's mother think of Modou?

3. According to the narrator, what did Modou do to gain her as a wife?

4. What is the goal of the narrator's education?

5. What did the deceased give Lady Mother-in-Law when he desires to marry Binetou?

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