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

2. How many years has the narrator been married to the deceased?
(a) 30
(b) 22
(c) 55
(d) 1

3. What is the traditional contribution for funeral expenses from others?
(a) Agricultural produce.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Crafts to sell at market.
(d) Cattle.

4. What is the first thing the narrator says in her letter?
(a) That she has moved to Canada.
(b) That she has just had a baby boy.
(c) That her eldest daughter is dead.
(d) That she lost her husband today.

5. What is remarkable about the narrator?
(a) She gave birth to a set of sextuplets all of whom survived.
(b) She was the only female pilot in Senegal.
(c) She won an Olympic gold medal in track.
(d) She had been one of the first educated women in Senegal.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the narrator realize that Modou was the man for her for life?

2. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?

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

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

5. How many children did the second wife bear the deceased?

(see the answer key)

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