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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the deceased do when he meets Binetou?
(a) Removes her from school.
(b) Sends her to school to learn how to manage the farmstead.
(c) Sends her to live with his brother as a third wife.
(d) Forces her to climb the Ngorongoro crator with him.

2. Of what does the younger generation speak?
(a) The need for more computer literacy.
(b) Becoming a democracy.
(c) Moving to Europe or the United States.
(d) Independence.

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

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

5. What is a test feared by Senegalese women?
(a) A ritual to discover if a woman is a virgin.
(b) The widow(s) have to be branded.
(c) Their sisters-in-law have to take down the new widows' hair.
(d) A test to learn if a woman is pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's state of mind at the opening of the book?

2. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?

3. What does the narrator do to fill the void her husband's loss leaves?

4. What is the mirasse?

5. What happens to her sons Alioune and Malick?

(see the answer key)

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