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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did the second wife bear the deceased?
(a) 1
(b) 9
(c) 3
(d) 0

2. What is a test feared by Senegalese women?
(a) Their sisters-in-law have to take down the new widows' hair.
(b) The widow(s) have to be branded.
(c) A test to learn if a woman is pregnant.
(d) A ritual to discover if a woman is a virgin.

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

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

5. According to the narrator, what did Modou do to gain her as a wife?
(a) He told her father she was pregnant.
(b) Nothing, she chased Modou.
(c) He promised her they'd move to America.
(d) He went to great lengths to have her.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is the purpose of teaching?

2. When did the narrator and her husband's romance blossom?

3. Who does Aissatou marry?

4. To whom do the wives give money?

5. How did the men of Senegal treat an educated woman?

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