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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the narrator and her husband's romance blossom?
(a) They were not very romantic.
(b) The moment he saw her as a toddler.
(c) Through their school years.
(d) After their third child was finally in school.

3. How does Modou juggle the two marriages and wives?
(a) He moves the second wife in the same house as the first.
(b) He decides to annul the second marriage.
(c) He abandons the narrator and their life together.
(d) He stays one week with one and the next with the other.

4. What is the occupation of Aissatou's father?
(a) Physician.
(b) Politician.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Painter.

5. What is the name of Modou's friend who Modou introduces to the narrator and her friends?
(a) Biku
(b) Mawdo Bw
(c) Fawd Was
(d) Memsab Nw

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of one of the narrator's children?

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

3. What does she catch three of her daughters doing that infuriates the narrator?

4. What does the narrator find when she rushes to the hospital?

5. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's choice to leave her husband and move to the United States?

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