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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?
(a) The shamen of the tribe.
(b) The deceased male relatives.
(c) The dead person's co-wife.
(d) All the children from all the wives.

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

3. Why is this test feared by Senegalese women?
(a) It determines who will marry her.
(b) It reveals what others think about her.
(c) It is very painful.
(d) It can sometimes result in death.

4. What does Mawdo tell the narrator about having two sons with Nabou?
(a) That he has learned to love Nabou as much as Aissatou.
(b) That women do not understand that men are partly driven by animal instincts.
(c) That he will now divorce Nabou.
(d) That he is giving the boys up for adoption.

5. What does the narrator believe her in-laws do not understand?
(a) Why Modou doesn't divorce the narrator.
(b) How education is so good for women.
(c) Why she married Modou.
(d) The duties of an employed mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's in-laws?

2. Of what is Aunty Nabou proud?

3. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?

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

5. How many years has the narrator been married to the deceased?

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