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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator find when she rushes to the hospital?
(a) Her brother-in-law with a broken leg.
(b) Her new granddaughter in an incubator.
(c) Her dead husband covered in a white sheet.
(d) Her husband in the ICU unit talking to a nurse.

2. What reasons does the narrator give for Modou's taking a second wife?
(a) For money, since the second wife came from a wealthy family.
(b) She doesn't have any idea.
(c) Either love or madness.
(d) For highter social status.

3. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?
(a) The older ones.
(b) None of them take up their father's occupation.
(c) The younger ones.
(d) She has no brothers.

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

5. What is the difference between the men and women during the gathering for the deceased?
(a) The women talk and the men are silent.
(b) The men are loud and boisterous while the women weep quietly.
(c) The men are dressed in native garb, but not the women.
(d) The men eat but the women do not.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what did Modou do to gain her as a wife?

2. How many years has the narrator been married to the deceased?

3. Why does Modou gain many promotions in his job?

4. What do the narrator and her friends do at their house parties?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think the narrator still puts up with her in-laws who irritate her and who continue to visit despite the fact that Modou is no longer living with the narrator?

2. What does the narrator think of those who go to school instead of learning traditional crafts?

3. Describe the narrator's living situation.

4. How does Daouda ask for Ramatoulaye's hand in marriage and what is her response?

5. What is the response to the taking down of the hair by each wife?

6. What is a possible reason the narrator's first name is revealed in chapter 19?

7. How does Aissatou respond to Mawdo accepting a second wife from his mother?

8. Compare and contrast the second marriages of Mawdo and Modou.

9. What is a mirasse?

10. What decision is made about Aissatou's pregnancy and how does Ramatoulaye feel about the decision?

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