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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What field is Modou's degree?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Law.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Medicine.

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

4. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?
(a) It is symbolic of the New Africa.
(b) It is the first one to have ever taken place in Senegal.
(c) It is the reason she loses her teaching job.
(d) It compels new laws granting women complete freedom.

5. How do the narrator and her friends feel about being teachers?
(a) It's something to pay the bills, though not very exciting.
(b) They love their profession.
(c) They hate teaching.
(d) It's a necessary evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do many of the young people consider traditional crafts?

2. What is the mirasse?

3. Who is Aissatou?

4. Why is the narrator upset about the sister-in-laws song?

5. What did the narrator's mother think of Modou?

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