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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 do the female relatives do for the deceased?
(a) Wail while walking around the outside of the home.
(b) Wash the dead person's body.
(c) Cover their heads with yellow cloth for two weeks.
(d) Light the funeral pyre.

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

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

4. What does Mawdo, Aissatou's husband, admire about his father-in-law?
(a) His prize cow.
(b) His willingness to cry at his daughter's wedding.
(c) His ability to work though he is handicapped.
(d) His dexterity and artistry.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first thing the narrator says in her letter?

3. Why does the narrator believe it is useless to try to revive the person in question 5?

4. What does Modou do with his degree?

5. What dos the narrator do as a profession?

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