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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 keeps Mawdo busy as a physician?
(a) Finding a cure for sickle cell anemia.
(b) The population boom.
(c) The AIDS epidemic.
(d) people People now prefer western medicine to the traditional medicine.

2. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's in-laws?
(a) That they are wonderfully warm people.
(b) That they take advantage of Aissatou.
(c) That they should not have moved to the United States.
(d) That they do not respect Aissatou.

3. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?
(a) The older ones.
(b) The younger ones.
(c) She has no brothers.
(d) None of them take up their father's occupation.

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

5. What is the narrator's state of mind at the opening of the book?
(a) Happy.
(b) Distraught.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?

2. Who discusses the mysteries of birth and death with the narrator?

3. How many sons does Aunty Nabou have?

4. What is Daouda Dieng's occupation?

5. How might one describe the culture of the Senegal people?

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