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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom do the wives give money?
(a) The government in the form of taxes.
(b) Their children.
(c) Their in-laws.
(d) No one; they keep it all for themselves.

2. What does the deceased do when he meets Binetou?
(a) Sends her to school to learn how to manage the farmstead.
(b) Forces her to climb the Ngorongoro crator with him.
(c) Removes her from school.
(d) Sends her to live with his brother as a third wife.

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

4. What is another secret revealed about the deceased?
(a) He had abandoned his first wife (the narrator) and her children to live with Binetou.
(b) He had four illegitimate children.
(c) He made a pact with an Inman to send his son to England.
(d) He never legally married his second wife.

5. How did the men of Senegal treat an educated woman?
(a) With deference.
(b) The men would often insult educated women but desired them also.
(c) They would not marry any woman who went to school past sixth grade.
(d) In awe that they could achieve such a difficult goal.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why is this test feared by Senegalese women?

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

5. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?

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