View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator find when she rushes to the hospital?
(a) Her brother-in-law with a broken leg.
(b) Her new granddaughter in an incubator.
(c) Her husband in the ICU unit talking to a nurse.
(d) Her dead husband covered in a white sheet.

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

3. When did the narrator realize that Modou was the man for her for life?
(a) When he asked her to marry him.
(b) After he dies.
(c) During their first dance.
(d) When he held their first child in his arms.

4. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?
(a) He had serious financial problems.
(b) He had two other wives secretly.
(c) He never believed in the Koran.
(d) He loved to travel to America.

5. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?
(a) It is symbolic of the New Africa.
(b) It is the reason she loses her teaching job.
(c) It compels new laws granting women complete freedom.
(d) It is the first one to have ever taken place in Senegal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a test feared by Senegalese women?

2. To where does Aunty Nabou travel?

3. What is the traditional contribution for funeral expenses from others?

4. Who did Modou support politically?

5. Who does little Nabou marry at Aunty Nabou's insistence?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 310 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample