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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?
(a) He had serious financial problems.
(b) He loved to travel to America.
(c) He never believed in the Koran.
(d) He had two other wives secretly.

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

3. Why does the narrator believe it is useless to try to revive the person in question 5?
(a) Because this hospital has no electric paddles.
(b) Because that person should die for sins commited.
(c) Because death is an act of fate.
(d) Because it is this person's second heart attack this year.

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

5. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's in-laws?
(a) That they are wonderfully warm people.
(b) That they take advantage of Aissatou.
(c) That they should not have moved to the United States.
(d) That they do not respect Aissatou.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is remarkable about the narrator?

2. What is ironic about Daouda Dieng's marriage proposal?

3. What was the narrator's emotional response to an offer of marriage after Modou's death?

4. How many sons does Aunty Nabou have?

5. Who is coming to visit the narrator in Chapter 22?

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