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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what did Modou do to gain her as a wife?
(a) He promised her they'd move to America.
(b) Nothing, she chased Modou.
(c) He told her father she was pregnant.
(d) He went to great lengths to have her.

2. What does the narrator do to Modou about his second marriage?
(a) She gives him an ultimatum.
(b) She forgives him.
(c) She asks him to have it annulled.
(d) She pretends it didn't happen.

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

4. How did the men of Senegal treat an educated woman?
(a) In awe that they could achieve such a difficult goal.
(b) The men would often insult educated women but desired them also.
(c) They would not marry any woman who went to school past sixth grade.
(d) With deference.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In whom has Modou begun showing an interest?

2. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?

3. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?

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

5. For whom does Modou work?

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