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

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

3. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?
(a) None of them take up their father's occupation.
(b) She has no brothers.
(c) The younger ones.
(d) The older ones.

4. What is the family's response to the narrator's non-traditional simple wedding ceremony?
(a) Glad that it does not cost much.
(b) Disapproval.
(c) Excited that she is using her education to change traditions.
(d) They do not believe it is sufficient to be legal.

5. How do many of the young people consider traditional crafts?
(a) As beneath them.
(b) As not worth learning.
(c) As an honorable profession.
(d) As a necessary evil.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which wife receives the most money?

3. What is a test feared by Senegalese women?

4. What is the difference between the narrator's friends and fellow teachers versus her in-laws?

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

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