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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 think is necessary to help the development of Senegal?
(a) Lots of foreign aid from the United States.
(b) For woman to stay home and have babies.
(c) A fight against poverty and for women to be politically involved.
(d) More colleges to open in Senegal.

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

3. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?
(a) She encourages her mother to follow Aissatou's footsteps and leave her husband.
(b) To ask for marriage counseling.
(c) To put up with it.
(d) To find herself a second husband.

4. When is the narrator involved that her husband has married a second wife?
(a) On the evening of the wedding.
(b) She is never told.
(c) Six months before he does so.
(d) A year later.

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

6. How does the narrator respond to Daouda Dieng's question from #134 above?
(a) She say yes.
(b) She says no.
(c) She give no response hoping he'll forget.
(d) She asks for a year's wait.

7. Who is the father of one of the narrator's soon-to-be-born grandchild?
(a) Ibrahima Sall.
(b) Moubo Tza.
(c) Dieng Douda.
(d) Mawba Sou.

8. How many years have passed since the end of chapter 12 and the beginning of chapter 13?
(a) 3
(b) 1
(c) 6
(d) 12

9. How did Modou respond to the narrator having a new car?
(a) Hurt.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Angry.

10. Who tells the narrator of Binetou's generous "sugar daddy"?
(a) Aissatou
(b) Aunty Nabou
(c) Daba
(d) Nabou

11. What is the reason the narrator gives for not marrying Daouda Dieng?
(a) She is moving to the United States.
(b) She is too old for that kind of foolishness.
(c) She does not want to be in another polygamous marriage.
(d) She despises Daouda Dieng.

12. Who are attracted to the narrator as a prospective wife?
(a) Men who want a traditional, submissive wife.
(b) Men who want a woman who can earn a paycheck.
(c) No one because the narrator is too old.
(d) Men who want her inheritance.

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

14. How many years have the narrator and Modou been married when he takes a second wife?
(a) 12
(b) 25
(c) 19
(d) 33

15. What do people think about the narrator rejecting Daouda Dieng and others for marriage?
(a) That she is unstable.
(b) That she is wise to forget about another marriage.
(c) That she is gold digging.
(d) That she wants to marry out of a need for revenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Aissatou's son, Mawdo Fall, a victim?

2. What was the narrator's emotional response to an offer of marriage after Modou's death?

3. What is the name of one of the narrator's children?

4. How does the narrator feel around Daouda Dieng?

5. What is ironic about Daouda Dieng's marriage proposal?

(see the answer keys)

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