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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pleases Ramatoulaye about women around the world?
(a) Their budding emancipation.
(b) That they use birth control.
(c) That they remain submissive to their husbands.
(d) That they are no longer bigoted.

2. What does Modou think of the policies of the dominant party?
(a) He believes they are too traditional.
(b) He thinks they are weak.
(c) He believes they are depleting the country's resources and wasting the money.
(d) He thinks they are instituting wonderful changes.

3. Who does little Nabou marry at Aunty Nabou's insistence?
(a) No one; her aunt insists she remain single.
(b) Mawdo.
(c) Modou.
(d) Dieng Dw.

4. What is the first thing the narrator says in her letter?
(a) That she has just had a baby boy.
(b) That her eldest daughter is dead.
(c) That she has moved to Canada.
(d) That she lost her husband today.

5. Which wife receives the most money?
(a) Neither receive money.
(b) The narrator.
(c) They receive an equal amount.
(d) The pretty one.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what academic class is Mawdo Fall having difficulties?

2. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?

3. Of what does the younger generation speak?

4. What profession does Aunty Nabou insist her niece take up?

5. What does Daouda Dieng think is necessary to help the development of Senegal?

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