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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Modou complain about in his letters?
(a) The cold weather in France.
(b) The difficulty of the coursework.
(c) Racial discrimination.
(d) The quality of the petit fours.

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

3. What does Daba produce when Lady Mother-in-Law wants the monthly salary continued?
(a) A box of jewelry for Mother-in-Law.
(b) Four witnesses that say Mother-in-Law abused the deceased.
(c) A court order doubling the amount.
(d) An affidavit with a list of what Binetou's villa contained.

4. What is a test feared by Senegalese women?
(a) Their sisters-in-law have to take down the new widows' hair.
(b) The widow(s) have to be branded.
(c) A test to learn if a woman is pregnant.
(d) A ritual to discover if a woman is a virgin.

5. 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) Either love or madness.
(c) For highter social status.
(d) She doesn't have any idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?

2. What is remarkable about the narrator?

3. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's in-laws?

4. Who is Daouda Dieng?

5. Of what is Aunty Nabou proud?

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