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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to her sons Alioune and Malick?
(a) They are hit by a motorcycle.
(b) They are kidnapped by their father.
(c) They quit school to support their mother.
(d) They both refuse to marry who their mother has chosen for them.

2. Who is Aissatou?
(a) The narrator's first college professor.
(b) The narrator's sister.
(c) The narrator's best friend.
(d) The narrator's sister-in-law.

3. What is the narrator's state of mind at the opening of the book?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Distraught.
(c) Happy.
(d) Angry.

4. What is the goal of the narrator's education?
(a) To enable her to home school her children.
(b) To emancipate her from the traditional roles of African women.
(c) To make her attractive to men.
(d) To earn a degree.

5. What does the narrator tell the answer to question #120 in response to his offer of marriage?
(a) She needs to think about it for awhile.
(b) She would be delighted to marry him.
(c) She would never marry him.
(d) She doesn't want to marry him but will live with him as his mistress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?

2. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's in-laws?

3. Why does the narrator learn to drive?

4. What does the narrator do to fill the void her husband's loss leaves?

5. Of what is Aunty Nabou proud?

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