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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel around Daouda Dieng?
(a) Put down.
(b) An equal.
(c) As just another woman to take care of a man.
(d) Desireable.

2. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?
(a) It compels new laws granting women complete freedom.
(b) It is symbolic of the New Africa.
(c) It is the first one to have ever taken place in Senegal.
(d) It is the reason she loses her teaching job.

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

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

5. What does Daouda Dieng ask of the narrator?
(a) To marry him.
(b) To run on a socialist ticket with him.
(c) To ask her advice about his youngest son.
(d) He does not come back to visit again.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the reason the narrator gives for not marrying Daouda Dieng?

3. Who tells the narrator of Binetou's generous "sugar daddy"?

4. From what type of background does Binetou come?

5. What do people think about the narrator rejecting Daouda Dieng and others for marriage?

(see the answer key)

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