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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to her sons Alioune and Malick?
(a) They are kidnapped by their father.
(b) They are hit by a motorcycle.
(c) They both refuse to marry who their mother has chosen for them.
(d) They quit school to support their mother.

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

3. What do the participants donate to this person's funeral?
(a) Forty head of sheep.
(b) Land for the widows to live on.
(c) A slave to be sacrificed on the funeral pyre.
(d) Money.

4. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?
(a) The shamen of the tribe.
(b) All the children from all the wives.
(c) The dead person's co-wife.
(d) The deceased male relatives.

5. What is ironic about Daouda Dieng's marriage proposal?
(a) He is already married, so the narrator would be the second wife.
(b) He does not propose marriage, but rather an affair.
(c) It is many years too late.
(d) He is recently widowed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?

2. What is the narrator's oldest daughter like?

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

4. What does the narrator have to put up with regularly?

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

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