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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the narrator's first impression of her future husband?
(a) That he probably wasn't from her country.
(b) That he was attractive and intelligent.
(c) That he needed to gain a little weight.
(d) That he was not very bright.

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

5. What does Modou do with his degree?
(a) He builds a hospital.
(b) He works toward the advancement of his country.
(c) He goes to work for an environmental firm.
(d) He designs a model city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?

2. Who suffers a heart attack?

3. What had the deceased bought to please his second wife?

4. Who discusses the mysteries of birth and death with the narrator?

5. What does the narrator find when she rushes to the hospital?

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