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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of food do the women bring the reapers at noon?
(a) Spaghetti.
(b) Rice and peas.
(c) Rice and beans.
(d) Couscous.

2. What does Camara's grandmother's hut look like?
(a) Full of stuff.
(b) Dirty.
(c) Empty.
(d) Clean.

3. When is the douga sung?
(a) All the time.
(b) Only when gold work is presented.
(c) When evil spirits need to be set free.
(d) Rarely.

4. What does Camara's school teacher do?
(a) He laughs at the students.
(b) He hugs the students.
(c) He is nice to the students.
(d) He beats the students.

5. What kind of a man is Lansana's twin brother?
(a) He's loud.
(b) He's quiet.
(c) He loves to sit still.
(d) He's restless.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who embraces Camara when he arrives in Tindican?

2. Who gathers the boys to take them away for their teenage ritual?

3. Why does Camara assume that his father underwent the rituals of preparing to work with gold before he even stepped foot in the shop the morning of the woman's arrival with gold?

4. What is the only thing Konden Diara will do to Camara according to his father?

5. Who are the reapers for the rice harvest?

(see the answer key)

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