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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does she catch three of her daughters doing that infuriates the narrator?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Piercing their ears.
(c) Corresponding with boys on the internet.
(d) Entertaining boys at home while their mother is gone.
2. What happens whenever the narrator goes to the movies alone?
(a) She receives looks of astonishment.
(b) She sneaks in without paying as she is now poor.
(c) She is accosted by men.
(d) She is able to have all the popcorn to herself.
3. What do people think about the narrator rejecting Daouda Dieng and others for marriage?
(a) That she is wise to forget about another marriage.
(b) That she wants to marry out of a need for revenge.
(c) That she is gold digging.
(d) That she is unstable.
4. What does the narrator say about Tamsir as a provider?
(a) He is a poor provider and his wifes cannot make ends meet.
(b) He does an adequate job of providing for his family.
(c) He showers his family with expensive presents.
(d) He does not provide for them as he left them.
5. What decision does the narrator make about her daughters?
(a) To watch them more closely.
(b) To send them to the United States for college.
(c) To pull them out of school and teach them traditional skills.
(d) To marry them by the time each is 21.
6. What does the narrator tell the answer to question #120 in response to his offer of marriage?
(a) She needs to think about it for awhile.
(b) She doesn't want to marry him but will live with him as his mistress.
(c) She would never marry him.
(d) She would be delighted to marry him.
7. In what academic class is Mawdo Fall having difficulties?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Humanities.
(c) English literature.
(d) Philosophy.
8. Who tells the narrator of Binetou's generous "sugar daddy"?
(a) Aunty Nabou
(b) Aissatou
(c) Nabou
(d) Daba
9. How do the narrator's in-laws treat her after Modou marries Binetou?
(a) They tell her how bad a wife she was.
(b) They still visit her.
(c) They shun her.
(d) They invite her to live with them.
10. What does the narrator fear about her child-raising skills?
(a) That she relied upon Modou too much.
(b) That she has been too permissive.
(c) That she was too strict.
(d) That she let her mother-in-law take care of the kids too much.
11. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's choice to leave her husband and move to the United States?
(a) That Aissatou is immoral.
(b) The narrator approves of the choice.
(c) That Aissatou never loved Mawdo.
(d) That Aissatou should have stayed.
12. In whom has Modou begun showing an interest?
(a) Binetou
(b) Kwise
(c) Nabou
(d) Aissatou
13. What is the reason the narrator gives for not marrying Daouda Dieng?
(a) She is too old for that kind of foolishness.
(b) She does not want to be in another polygamous marriage.
(c) She despises Daouda Dieng.
(d) She is moving to the United States.
14. Who helps care for the narrator's children when they are sick?
(a) Aissatou.
(b) The in-laws.
(c) Mawdo Bw.
(d) Daba.
15. Who does the narrator blame for her husband taking a second wife?
(a) She says no one is to blame.
(b) Modou.
(c) Herself.
(d) Having too many children.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Binetou feel about her marriage to Modou?
2. Who inherits Binetou's villa after Modou's death?
3. What is the narrator's first name?
4. What happens when Modou and Binetou go out?
5. Who is disappointed about how the narrator handles Aissatou's problem?
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