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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare teachers?
(a) Socrates and Aristotole.
(b) Slaves from the Roman times.
(c) Evangelical ministers.
(d) An army of priests-in charge of people's souls.

2. What is the difference between the narrator's friends and fellow teachers versus her in-laws?
(a) Her in-laws are from Kenya, not Senegal.
(b) She is able to relax with them, which she can't do with her in-laws.
(c) Her friends are modern-minded; whereas the in-laws stick to tradition.
(d) Her in-laws belong to a different political party from her friends.

3. How does Aissatou respond to Mawdo's taking a second wife under pressure from his mother?
(a) She kills herself.
(b) She agrees to the arrangement, but the second wife is not allowed in Aissatou's home.
(c) She is excited for help in the household.
(d) She takes her four sons and moves to the United States.

4. Who is Daouda Dieng?
(a) The head of the police in Senegal.
(b) The narrator's brother.
(c) The boy her mother prefers over Modou.
(d) The narrator's maternal uncle.

5. When did the narrator realize that Modou was the man for her for life?
(a) During their first dance.
(b) When he asked her to marry him.
(c) When he held their first child in his arms.
(d) After he dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Modou do with his degree?

2. How many years have the narrator and Modou been married when he takes a second wife?

3. Of what is Aunty Nabou proud?

4. What had the deceased bought to please his second wife?

5. What dos the narrator do as a profession?

(see the answer key)

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