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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare teachers?
(a) Socrates and Aristotole.
(b) An army of priests-in charge of people's souls.
(c) Slaves from the Roman times.
(d) Evangelical ministers.

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

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

4. Why is the narrator upset about the sister-in-laws song?
(a) Because they do not sing the complete song.
(b) Because they praise both wifes equally.
(c) Because they do not remember the narrator's name.
(d) Because they sing out of key.

5. What reasons does the narrator give for Modou's taking a second wife?
(a) For highter social status.
(b) She doesn't have any idea.
(c) Either love or madness.
(d) For money, since the second wife came from a wealthy family.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Modou work?

2. What is Daouda Dieng's occupation?

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

4. What, in the narrator's opinion, does modernity do?

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

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