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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say about Tamsir as a provider?
(a) He showers his family with expensive presents.
(b) He is a poor provider and his wifes cannot make ends meet.
(c) He does not provide for them as he left them.
(d) He does an adequate job of providing for his family.

2. In whom has Modou begun showing an interest?
(a) Aissatou
(b) Kwise
(c) Binetou
(d) Nabou

3. What is the traditional contribution for funeral expenses from others?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Agricultural produce.
(c) Crafts to sell at market.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?
(a) She encourages her mother to follow Aissatou's footsteps and leave her husband.
(b) To find herself a second husband.
(c) To ask for marriage counseling.
(d) To put up with it.

5. What does the narrator find when she rushes to the hospital?
(a) Her brother-in-law with a broken leg.
(b) Her new granddaughter in an incubator.
(c) Her dead husband covered in a white sheet.
(d) Her husband in the ICU unit talking to a nurse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what academic class is Mawdo Fall having difficulties?

3. What does the deceased do when he meets Binetou?

4. What reasons does the narrator give for Modou's taking a second wife?

5. What keeps Mawdo busy as a physician?

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