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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 Aunty Nabou demand?
(a) Enough money to move to the West Indies.
(b) That they provide her a small stipend to live on.
(c) That her brother help her discipline Mawdo.
(d) To take little Nabou, her brother's daughter, back home with her.

2. Who suffers a heart attack?
(a) Mawdo Bâ.
(b) Samba Diack.
(c) Iba.
(d) Modou.

3. Why is the narrator upset about the donations from the people?
(a) The people do not donate very much.
(b) Most people decline to donate?
(c) The people resent donating.
(d) It's too late to save others with needed medications.

4. What is a test feared by Senegalese women?
(a) A test to learn if a woman is pregnant.
(b) Their sisters-in-law have to take down the new widows' hair.
(c) The widow(s) have to be branded.
(d) A ritual to discover if a woman is a virgin.

5. How long does the narrator have to stay indoors after the funeral?
(a) Three days.
(b) Four months and ten days.
(c) As long as it takes for her hair to grow long again.
(d) She does not have to stay indoors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are "the trio?"

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

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

4. What is remarkable about the narrator?

5. Where did Modou go for a degree?

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