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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 does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?
(a) If any were an enemy of the deceased.
(b) How much each person will donate.
(c) Whose grief is genuine.
(d) If she might find a man to marry among them.

2. What is the goal of the narrator's education?
(a) To make her attractive to men.
(b) To emancipate her from the traditional roles of African women.
(c) To earn a degree.
(d) To enable her to home school her children.

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

4. What does the narrator find when she rushes to the hospital?
(a) Her new granddaughter in an incubator.
(b) Her brother-in-law with a broken leg.
(c) Her husband in the ICU unit talking to a nurse.
(d) Her dead husband covered in a white sheet.

5. What does Mawdo, Aissatou's husband, admire about his father-in-law?
(a) His dexterity and artistry.
(b) His ability to work though he is handicapped.
(c) His willingness to cry at his daughter's wedding.
(d) His prize cow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does the woman bear the deceased?

2. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?

3. What does the narrator have to put up with regularly?

4. What does Daba produce when Lady Mother-in-Law wants the monthly salary continued?

5. Why is the narrator upset about the donations from the people?

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