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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's choice to leave her husband and move to the United States?
(a) That Aissatou is immoral.
(b) The narrator approves of the choice.
(c) That Aissatou should have stayed.
(d) That Aissatou never loved Mawdo.

2. How do many of the young people consider traditional crafts?
(a) As an honorable profession.
(b) As not worth learning.
(c) As a necessary evil.
(d) As beneath them.

3. What do the narrator and her friends do at their house parties?
(a) Compare and evaluate their husbands.
(b) Relive their youth to the beat of old songs.
(c) Sell tupperware.
(d) Organize political rallies.

4. How does the narrator act upon hearing the news?
(a) She flies into a rage and slaps Modou.
(b) She immediately packs and leaves for the United States.
(c) She is indifferent since she is first wife and most important.
(d) She hides her distress from her visitors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years have passed since the end of chapter 12 and the beginning of chapter 13?

2. What is another secret revealed about the deceased?

3. What, in the narrator's opinion, does modernity do?

4. How many children did the second wife bear the deceased?

5. How does the narrator feel about Modou taking a second wife?

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