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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the traditional contribution for funeral expenses from others?
(a) Crafts to sell at market.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Agricultural produce.
(d) Cattle.

3. What does the narrator find when she rushes to the hospital?
(a) Her brother-in-law with a broken leg.
(b) Her dead husband covered in a white sheet.
(c) Her new granddaughter in an incubator.
(d) Her husband in the ICU unit talking to a nurse.

4. What is the difference between the narrator's friends and fellow teachers versus her in-laws?
(a) Her friends are modern-minded; whereas the in-laws stick to tradition.
(b) She is able to relax with them, which she can't do with her in-laws.
(c) Her in-laws belong to a different political party from her friends.
(d) Her in-laws are from Kenya, not Senegal.

5. When did the narrator and her husband's romance blossom?
(a) The moment he saw her as a toddler.
(b) Through their school years.
(c) They were not very romantic.
(d) After their third child was finally in school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the deceased do when he meets Binetou?

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

3. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?

4. Where did Modou go for a degree?

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

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