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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Kouroukan Fougan or The Division of the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kanty's magical instrument alert him of?
(a) Which women are most interested in him.
(b) When is good time to go and hunt.
(c) When someone has broken into his chambers.
(d) When there is a traitor in the room.

2. Which character is considered to have a mighty strength?
(a) Dankaran.
(b) Fran Kamara.
(c) Fassyky.
(d) Manding Bory.

3. Who updates the reader on lives of Sundiata's friends?
(a) Sogolon's spirit.
(b) Dankaran.
(c) Sundiata himself.
(d) The griot.

4. To whom do Sundiata's soldiers tell their stories of battle in the hopes that they will be made into legends?
(a) Nana Triban.
(b) Fran Kamara.
(c) Fassyky.
(d) Soumaoro.

5. Which of the following elements does Kanty and his men have mastery over?
(a) Fire.
(b) Earth.
(c) Air.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose responsibility is it to track the history of African families?

2. Who is Nana Triban's mother?

3. How much of his army does Tounkara give to Sundiata when he leaves Mema?

4. How many witches does Sassouma hire to kill Sundiata?

5. Which of the following types of poems is the genre which "Sundiata" belongs to?

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