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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 happens to her sons Alioune and Malick?
(a) They are kidnapped by their father.
(b) They quit school to support their mother.
(c) They both refuse to marry who their mother has chosen for them.
(d) They are hit by a motorcycle.

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

3. How do many of the young people consider traditional crafts?
(a) As not worth learning.
(b) As beneath them.
(c) As an honorable profession.
(d) As a necessary evil.

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

5. What was the narrator's first impression of her future husband?
(a) That he probably wasn't from her country.
(b) That he was not very bright.
(c) That he was attractive and intelligent.
(d) That he needed to gain a little weight.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years have passed since the end of chapter 12 and the beginning of chapter 13?

2. How does Modou feel about being married to Binetou?

3. What is the family's response to the narrator's non-traditional simple wedding ceremony?

4. Of what does the younger generation speak?

5. What do the female relatives do for the deceased?

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