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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daouda Dieng say the narrator and he can bring to a marriage?
(a) The combined fortune of both of their houses.
(b) Understanding and happines.
(c) A new perspective on multiple marriages.
(d) Lots of children.

2. Who helps care for the narrator's children when they are sick?
(a) Aissatou.
(b) Mawdo Bw.
(c) Daba.
(d) The in-laws.

3. How did the narrator feel about her marriage before Modou abandons her?
(a) She was actually thinking of divorcing Modou.
(b) She hated being married.
(c) She loved being married.
(d) She felt Modou took advantage of her.

4. What has Daouda Dieng been called publicly?
(a) A feminist.
(b) A racist.
(c) A candidate for presidency.
(d) An embezzler.

5. Why does the narrator learn to drive?
(a) To prove to Modou that she does not need him.
(b) To make Aissatou proud.
(c) She cannot drive; she hires a driver.
(d) So she can transport her children.

6. Who is the narrator's neighbor?
(a) Her mother-in-law.
(b) Her oldest daughter who is married.
(c) A widower with two children.
(d) The griot woman.

7. Who is coming to visit the narrator in Chapter 22?
(a) Asissatou.
(b) Dieng.
(c) Mawba.
(d) Daba.

8. In what way does the narrator believe lies her happiness?
(a) Giving her children to relatives to raise.
(b) Moving to the United States to live with Aissatou.
(c) Being part of a couple.
(d) Killing herself.

9. How does Modou feel about being married to Binetou?
(a) He is happy.
(b) He believes she tricked him into marrying her.
(c) He expects to divorce her after he is tired of her.
(d) He is sorry he married her.

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

11. Who is disappointed about how the narrator handles Aissatou's problem?
(a) Mawbe.
(b) Modou.
(c) Farmata.
(d) Aissatou the elder.

12. In whom has Modou begun showing an interest?
(a) Nabou
(b) Kwise
(c) Aissatou
(d) Binetou

13. Who does the narrator blame for her husband taking a second wife?
(a) She says no one is to blame.
(b) Herself.
(c) Having too many children.
(d) Modou.

14. What is the narrator's oldest daughter like?
(a) Too lazy to study in school.
(b) Strong-minded.
(c) Submissive to men.
(d) Defers all decisions to her mother.

15. Who makes repairs around the narrator's house now that her husband has abandoned her?
(a) The narrator's uncle.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Mawdo.
(d) No one; the narrator lets the house fall apart.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what type of background does Binetou come?

2. What does the narrator think hurt Modou's career?

3. Who informs the narrator of the marriage?

4. What does Daouda Dieng ask of the narrator?

5. Now that Modou has left her, how does the narrator travel with her children?

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