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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?
(a) Because her future husband is blackmailing her.
(b) Her great-Aunt who did the same.
(c) What she learns in school.
(d) She is pregnant.

2. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?
(a) How much each person will donate.
(b) Whose grief is genuine.
(c) If any were an enemy of the deceased.
(d) If she might find a man to marry among them.

3. What do the participants donate to this person's funeral?
(a) Land for the widows to live on.
(b) Forty head of sheep.
(c) A slave to be sacrificed on the funeral pyre.
(d) Money.

4. How is Aunty Nabou received when she arrives at her destination?
(a) With hesitation.
(b) She is asked to return home immediately.
(c) With cold obligatory rituals.
(d) Like a princess.

5. How do many of the young people consider traditional crafts?
(a) As an honorable profession.
(b) As a necessary evil.
(c) As not worth learning.
(d) As beneath them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession does Aunty Nabou insist her niece take up?

2. How many sons does Aunty Nabou have?

3. Who suffers a heart attack?

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

5. Who did Modou support politically?

(see the answer key)

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