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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 Daouda Dieng's occupation?
(a) Herdsman.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Physician.
(d) Professor.

2. What does the narrator have to put up with regularly?
(a) Snakes in the house.
(b) Her sisters-in-law and mother-in-law's frequent intrusions.
(c) Babysitting her nieces and nephews.
(d) Her mother offering advice.

3. 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 this hospital has no electric paddles.
(c) Because death is an act of fate.
(d) Because that person should die for sins commited.

4. What is the mirasse?
(a) A payment of 10 dollars from the government for the widow.
(b) A pilgrimage to Mecca.
(c) A vision the widow finds on a quest in the desert.
(d) A family meeting required by the Koran where the deceased's secrets are exposed.

5. Which wife receives the most money?
(a) Neither receive money.
(b) They receive an equal amount.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The pretty one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?

2. What does Daba produce when Lady Mother-in-Law wants the monthly salary continued?

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

4. To what does the narrator compare teachers?

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

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