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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eternal Mali.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many witches does Sassouma hire to kill Sundiata?
(a) Nine hundred.
(b) Ninety.
(c) Nine.
(d) Nineteen.

2. After what event does Sundiata promise to stand up and walk?
(a) After his mother passes away.
(b) After a humiliating beating.
(c) After Dankaran rises to power.
(d) After his eighteenth birthday.

3. According to the griot, how many rulers since Sundiata's day have compared with him in power and legacy?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) None.

4. Who first spots the Malian merchants in Mema?
(a) Manding Bory.
(b) Sundiata.
(c) Sogolon.
(d) Kolonkan.

5. How did Nana Triban gain access into Soumaoro's sorcery chambers?
(a) She went in disguise.
(b) She used the magic xylophone.
(c) She climbed in through the window.
(d) She seduced him.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Nana Triban meets with Sundiata, what does she deny every doing?

2. Out of what metal does Sundiata ask the blacksmiths to make his walking rod?

3. Who falls ill, causing king Soumaba to relocate the family to a river country?

4. What does the king give to his subjects in celebration for the birth of the new child?

5. What is the role of a griot?

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