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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Aunty Nabou's goal in raising her niece?
(a) To shape her into what she thinks a noble woman should be-obedient.
(b) To find her a good husband.
(c) To help her become highly educated.
(d) To have a female to care for her in her old age.

3. In Modou's letters to the narrator while getting his degree, for what did he say he longed?
(a) A home-cooked meal.
(b) Enough money to come home and visit.
(c) For the narrator's presence and black complexion.
(d) His family and friends.

4. How long does the narrator have to stay indoors after the funeral?
(a) As long as it takes for her hair to grow long again.
(b) Four months and ten days.
(c) Three days.
(d) She does not have to stay indoors.

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

6. Why does Modou gain many promotions in his job?
(a) His father-in-law is in charge where he works.
(b) His charisma and devotion to the workers' plight.
(c) He bribes those in authority above him.
(d) He does not accept a salary for his work.

7. What field is Modou's degree?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Law.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Mathematics.

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

9. Who is Aissatou?
(a) The narrator's best friend.
(b) The narrator's sister-in-law.
(c) The narrator's sister.
(d) The narrator's first college professor.

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

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

12. What keeps Mawdo busy as a physician?
(a) The AIDS epidemic.
(b) Finding a cure for sickle cell anemia.
(c) people People now prefer western medicine to the traditional medicine.
(d) The population boom.

13. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?
(a) It is symbolic of the New Africa.
(b) It is the reason she loses her teaching job.
(c) It compels new laws granting women complete freedom.
(d) It is the first one to have ever taken place in Senegal.

14. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?
(a) She didn't know about it.
(b) She was not alive at the time.
(c) She thought it was wonderful.
(d) She disapproved of it at first.

15. How does Aissatou respond to Mawdo's taking a second wife under pressure from his mother?
(a) She kills herself.
(b) She agrees to the arrangement, but the second wife is not allowed in Aissatou's home.
(c) She is excited for help in the household.
(d) She takes her four sons and moves to the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years has the second wife been married to the deceased?

2. What is the family's response to the narrator's non-traditional simple wedding ceremony?

3. Who leads the country when the republic is born?

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

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

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