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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are attracted to the narrator as a prospective wife?
(a) Men who want a traditional, submissive wife.
(b) No one because the narrator is too old.
(c) Men who want a woman who can earn a paycheck.
(d) Men who want her inheritance.

2. What has Daouda Dieng been called publicly?
(a) A racist.
(b) A feminist.
(c) A candidate for presidency.
(d) An embezzler.

3. What is Daouda Dieng's occupation?
(a) Herdsman.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Physician.
(d) Professor.

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 new granddaughter in an incubator.
(c) Her dead husband covered in a white sheet.
(d) Her brother-in-law with a broken leg.

5. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) Her great-Aunt who did the same.
(c) What she learns in school.
(d) Because her future husband is blackmailing her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator believe her in-laws do not understand?

2. To where does Aunty Nabou travel?

3. Who is the narrator's neighbor?

4. What does the narrator say about Tamsir as a provider?

5. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?

(see the answer key)

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