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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Binetou treat Modou?
(a) She makes fun of him.
(b) With the proper respect of a wife to a husband.
(c) With gratitude for marrying her.
(d) With awe and reverence.

2. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?
(a) To find herself a second husband.
(b) She encourages her mother to follow Aissatou's footsteps and leave her husband.
(c) To put up with it.
(d) To ask for marriage counseling.

3. Who does the narrator blame for her husband taking a second wife?
(a) Having too many children.
(b) She says no one is to blame.
(c) Herself.
(d) Modou.

4. What two woman does the narrator compare?
(a) Aunty Nabou and Lady Mother-in-law.
(b) Daba and Binetou.
(c) Nabou and Binetou.
(d) Aissatou and herself.

5. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?
(a) A poem citing the deceased warrior deeds.
(b) KORAN verses.
(c) A prayer for the resurrection of the deceased.
(d) Verses from THE PROPHET.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare teachers?

2. To whom do the wives give money?

3. Why is the narrator upset about the donations from the people?

4. Why does the narrator learn to drive?

5. When is the narrator involved that her husband has married a second wife?

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