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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator believe it is useless to try to revive the person in question 5?
(a) Because this hospital has no electric paddles.
(b) Because it is this person's second heart attack this year.
(c) Because that person should die for sins commited.
(d) Because death is an act of fate.

2. What field is Modou's degree?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Law.
(d) Mathematics.

3. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?
(a) Her twin daughters.
(b) Her younger sister.
(c) Her friend, Aissatou.
(d) Her divorced husband.

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

5. 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 dressed in native garb, but not the women.
(c) The men are loud and boisterous while the women weep quietly.
(d) The men eat but the women do not.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the men of Senegal treat an educated woman?

2. What does Modou complain about in his letters?

3. Where did Modou go for a degree?

4. How many years has the second wife been married to the deceased?

5. What does Modou do with his degree?

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