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According to Mueller The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal, originally rab were invisible spirits that lived in harmony with the nomadic humans and made their homes in trees. The nature of the relationship changed when
 
  a. the humans angered the Madge-juenne, a grand rab, and she sent the faru rab to trouble
   them.
   b. modernization and globalization began to conflict with belief in spirits.
   c. humans needed land to grow more crops and began cutting down trees.
  d. the Senegalese fully embraced Islam and turned their backs on their traditional belief systems.

Question 2

In The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal, Mueller notes that the Lbou recognize several different kinds of rab; only the __________ are the type that attach themselves to humans in a troublesome way.
 
  a. Kumba Bang
  b. Lumbay
  c. Diop
  d. Faru rab



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Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: c

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: d





 

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