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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 is Daouda Dieng's occupation?
(a) Herdsman.
(b) Professor.
(c) Physician.
(d) Lawyer.

2. What is the difference between the men and women during the gathering for the deceased?
(a) The men are loud and boisterous while the women weep quietly.
(b) The women talk and the men are silent.
(c) The men eat but the women do not.
(d) The men are dressed in native garb, but not the women.

3. What is the mirasse?
(a) A pilgrimage to Mecca.
(b) A family meeting required by the Koran where the deceased's secrets are exposed.
(c) A vision the widow finds on a quest in the desert.
(d) A payment of 10 dollars from the government for the widow.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare teachers?

2. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?

3. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?

4. Who does Aissatou marry?

5. Where did Modou go for a degree?

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