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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?
(a) Her twin daughters.
(b) Her younger sister.
(c) Her friend, Aissatou.
(d) Her divorced husband.

3. To where does Aunty Nabou travel?
(a) Englands.
(b) Diakhao.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Kenya.

4. What, in the narrator's opinion, does modernity do?
(a) It signifies the slow death of traditional trades.
(b) It improves the country immensely.
(c) It causes immoral behavior among the young people.
(d) It increases live births.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator believe her in-laws do not understand?

2. What field is Modou's degree?

3. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?

4. Who leads the country when the republic is born?

5. Of what is Aunty Nabou proud?

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