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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who suffers a heart attack?
(a) Samba Diack.
(b) Iba.
(c) Modou.
(d) Mawdo Bâ.

3. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?
(a) If she might find a man to marry among them.
(b) Whose grief is genuine.
(c) How much each person will donate.
(d) If any were an enemy of the deceased.

4. How many children does the woman bear the deceased?
(a) 12
(b) 15
(c) 0
(d) 2

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Modou's letters to the narrator while getting his degree, for what did he say he longed?

3. What does Modou complain about in his letters?

4. What does Daba produce when Lady Mother-in-Law wants the monthly salary continued?

5. What is the narrator's state of mind at the opening of the book?

(see the answer key)

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