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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 one secret revealed about the deceased?
(a) He never believed in the Koran.
(b) He had two other wives secretly.
(c) He loved to travel to America.
(d) He had serious financial problems.

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

3. Who does Aissatou marry?
(a) Daouda Dieng.
(b) Moudou.
(c) Douda Raaw.
(d) Mawdo Bw.

4. How many years has the narrator been married to the deceased?
(a) 22
(b) 1
(c) 30
(d) 55

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the goal of the narrator's education?

2. What do the female relatives do for the deceased?

3. What does Mawdo, Aissatou's husband, admire about his father-in-law?

4. How might one describe the culture of the Senegal people?

5. How long does the narrator have to stay indoors after the funeral?

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