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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chpater Five, pages 111-133.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the disease contracted by the professor's traveling partner?
(a) Flu
(b) Malaria
(c) Diptheria
(d) Polio

2. How many days pass during which the professor could not come to shore because of bad weather?
(a) Fifty-five
(b) Fifteen
(c) Five
(d) Fifty

3. How does cholera infect the community?
(a) It was brought in by a merchant returning from China
(b) It was brought in by someone who had traveled to France
(c) No one knows
(d) It was brought ashore by someone who arrived on a ship

4. What is the currency favored by the people of Dahomey?
(a) Cowrie shells
(b) Gold
(c) Paper
(d) Nuts

5. Which of the following was NOT one of the fates that befell the family?
(a) Loss of revenue from the slave trade
(b) Damage from a tornado
(c) A mudslide collapsing one wall of the compound
(d) Burning of several houses after a roasting nut caught on fire

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Mama Wewe play for the military man, Lieutenant Parisot?

2. Which of the following was among the gifts the professor brings Mama Wewe when he pays her a second visit?

3. Which of the following items was not on the shelf in Dom Francisco's room?

4. Where does the family head after the memorial event?

5. What do women think of the sounds of Swiss musical clocks?

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