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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The shamen of the tribe.
(d) All the children from all the wives.

2. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?
(a) She thought it was wonderful.
(b) She disapproved of it at first.
(c) She was not alive at the time.
(d) She didn't know about it.

3. What does Daouda Dieng think is necessary to help the development of Senegal?
(a) Lots of foreign aid from the United States.
(b) For woman to stay home and have babies.
(c) A fight against poverty and for women to be politically involved.
(d) More colleges to open in Senegal.

4. What kind of clothes do her daughters wear?
(a) Hippie.
(b) Western.
(c) Sari's.
(d) Traditional.

5. What does the narrator fear about her child-raising skills?
(a) That she let her mother-in-law take care of the kids too much.
(b) That she relied upon Modou too much.
(c) That she has been too permissive.
(d) That she was too strict.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two woman does the narrator compare?

2. What decision does the narrator make about her daughters?

3. Who gives the narrator a brand new car?

4. What does Daouda Dieng say the narrator and he can bring to a marriage?

5. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?

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