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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the narrator's in-laws treat her after Modou marries Binetou?
2. What is the reason the narrator gives for not marrying Daouda Dieng?
3. Who tells the narrator he will marry her after the mourning period is over for Modou?
4. Now that Modou has left her, how does the narrator travel with her children?
5. What does the narrator think hurt Modou's career?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Ramatoulaye's message at the end of the book is one of hope. Discuss various things that our world is doing to ensure the continuation of a healthy species and earth and how that is hopeful.
In what ways does our species and planet seem to be on a course of destruction and what needs to be done to feel hopeful about the future?
Essay Topic 2
Ramatoulaye's best friend moves to the United States after her husband married a second wife. Over the past several hundred years, many emigrants have moved to the United States seeking relief from oppressive governments or oppressive cultural mores. Discuss some of the things that would drive you to leave your home country to move to a new country and different culture. If there is nothing that would make you leave your home country, discuss what about your country makes you want to live there for your entire life.
Essay Topic 3
Morality is another concept that seems to be taught and thought about less often now than in the time of So Long A Letter. How has morality changed in the United States since the 1950's? What is considered acceptable now that was considered immoral then? What is still considered immoral now as then? Should morality change? Is the differences between what was considered moral behavior then versus now that significant? Has the United States been negatively impacted by the changing moral climate of the country? Has it been positively impacted? Such areas to consider might be marriage vs. living together; gay relationships; cheating or stealing; parent-child relationships.
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