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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?
(a) The older ones.
(b) She has no brothers.
(c) The younger ones.
(d) None of them take up their father's occupation.

2. What do the narrator and her friends do at their house parties?
(a) Relive their youth to the beat of old songs.
(b) Compare and evaluate their husbands.
(c) Organize political rallies.
(d) Sell tupperware.

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

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

5. Who is Aissatou?
(a) The narrator's first college professor.
(b) The narrator's sister.
(c) The narrator's sister-in-law.
(d) The narrator's best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a test feared by Senegalese women?

2. What, in the narrator's opinion, does modernity do?

3. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?

4. What is the family's response to the narrator's non-traditional simple wedding ceremony?

5. What is the name of Modou's friend who Modou introduces to the narrator and her friends?

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