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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dos the narrator do as a profession?
(a) A physician.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A housewife.
(d) A teacher.

2. What is ironic about Daouda Dieng's marriage proposal?
(a) It is many years too late.
(b) He is already married, so the narrator would be the second wife.
(c) He is recently widowed.
(d) He does not propose marriage, but rather an affair.

3. What does the narrator believe her in-laws do not understand?
(a) The duties of an employed mother.
(b) How education is so good for women.
(c) Why Modou doesn't divorce the narrator.
(d) Why she married Modou.

4. How does Nabou feel about Mawdo?
(a) She loves him.
(b) She likes him but is in love with a man from her hometown.
(c) She is repulsed by him.
(d) She despises him.

5. How do the narrator and her friends feel about being teachers?
(a) It's a necessary evil.
(b) They love their profession.
(c) It's something to pay the bills, though not very exciting.
(d) They hate teaching.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?

2. In whom has Modou begun showing an interest?

3. What is the difference between the narrator's friends and fellow teachers versus her in-laws?

4. What is the family's response to the narrator's non-traditional simple wedding ceremony?

5. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?

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