So Long a Letter Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Mariama Ba
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So Long a Letter Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Mariama Ba
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is the purpose of teaching?
(a) To earn an above-average salary.
(b) To shape young people's minds.
(c) To influence the next generation of men.
(d) To get out of household chores.

2. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?
(a) The dead person's co-wife.
(b) The shamen of the tribe.
(c) The deceased male relatives.
(d) All the children from all the wives.

3. What does the narrator have to put up with regularly?
(a) Her sisters-in-law and mother-in-law's frequent intrusions.
(b) Snakes in the house.
(c) Babysitting her nieces and nephews.
(d) Her mother offering advice.

4. What did the narrator's mother think of Modou?
(a) He was kind and generous.
(b) He wouldn't be a good provider.
(c) He was too good to be true.
(d) He was ugly.

5. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?
(a) A poem citing the deceased warrior deeds.
(b) KORAN verses.
(c) Verses from THE PROPHET.
(d) A prayer for the resurrection of the deceased.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?

2. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?

3. What did the deceased give Lady Mother-in-Law when he desires to marry Binetou?

4. How do the narrator and her friends feel about being teachers?

5. Which wife receives the most money?

(see the answer key)

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