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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Aunty Nabou?
2. How long does the narrator have to stay indoors after the funeral?
3. What does Mawdo, Aissatou's husband, admire about his father-in-law?
4. What do the participants donate to this person's funeral?
5. What had the deceased bought to please his second wife?
Short Essay Questions
1. With what does Aissatou surprise the narrator and what is Modou's response? Does it surprise you, the reader, that another woman would give a car to a her best friend when the husband is not providing for her?
2. How does Daba feel about her father marrying her best friend? Do you think Daba's friend, Binetou, had a choice in marrying Modou? What does the narrator think about Binetou agreement to marry the narrator's husband?
3. What is Mawdo Bw's attitude towards his marriage and father-in-law?
4. Why is Mawdo's life as a physician successful and what are the implications of this?
5. What is a mirasse?
6. What evidence is there that racism exists in Senegal? What is the narrator's response to the problem?
7. How is Daouda Dieng significant to the narrator?
8. How does the narrator learn of Modou's new wife and what is she told?
9. What are some things Daouda does when he visits the narrator that implies his future offer of marriage?
10. How does Daouda ask for Ramatoulaye's hand in marriage and what is her response?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Ramatoulaye writes of Daouda Dieng, the man her mother wanted her to marry, that he was a feminist. What does a man being a feminist mean? Give clear examples and details to support your thesis.
Is there any need in the world today for the concept of feminism? Why or why not--give examples and details to support your thesis.
Essay Topic 2
Political systems. Several political systems are mentioned in this book, democracy and socialism being the most prominent. Research the differences between democracy and socialism. How would life in the United States be different under a socialist form of government versus a democracy. Compare and contrast a country that is considered to be a democracy versus one considered socialist. Look at individual rights, worker's rights, class structure, and one other field of your choice, such as medicine or education.
Essay Topic 3
Women have little economic or political power in Senegal at the time this book is set in the 1950-1960s. Research how if at all, Senegal has changed since the time of the setting of this book in terms of the equality between men and women. Would you want to live in a culture as that of Senegal of that time? Why or why not?
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