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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Aunty Nabou received when she arrives at her destination?
(a) She is asked to return home immediately.
(b) With cold obligatory rituals.
(c) Like a princess.
(d) With hesitation.

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

3. What is the name of Modou's friend who Modou introduces to the narrator and her friends?
(a) Mawdo Bw
(b) Memsab Nw
(c) Biku
(d) Fawd Was

4. What is Daouda Dieng's occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Herdsman.
(c) Physician.
(d) Professor.

5. What does Modou do with his degree?
(a) He works toward the advancement of his country.
(b) He designs a model city.
(c) He goes to work for an environmental firm.
(d) He builds a hospital.

6. What do the female relatives do for the deceased?
(a) Wail while walking around the outside of the home.
(b) Wash the dead person's body.
(c) Cover their heads with yellow cloth for two weeks.
(d) Light the funeral pyre.

7. Why does Modou gain many promotions in his job?
(a) His father-in-law is in charge where he works.
(b) He does not accept a salary for his work.
(c) He bribes those in authority above him.
(d) His charisma and devotion to the workers' plight.

8. What does the narrator find when she rushes to the hospital?
(a) Her dead husband covered in a white sheet.
(b) Her brother-in-law with a broken leg.
(c) Her husband in the ICU unit talking to a nurse.
(d) Her new granddaughter in an incubator.

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

10. To where does Aunty Nabou travel?
(a) Diakhao.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Englands.
(d) Kenya.

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

12. What does Mawdo tell the narrator about having two sons with Nabou?
(a) That women do not understand that men are partly driven by animal instincts.
(b) That he has learned to love Nabou as much as Aissatou.
(c) That he will now divorce Nabou.
(d) That he is giving the boys up for adoption.

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

14. What is the narrator's state of mind at the opening of the book?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Angry.
(c) Distraught.
(d) Happy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the deceased give Lady Mother-in-Law when he desires to marry Binetou?

3. What was the narrator's first impression of her future husband?

4. To whom do the wives give money?

5. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?

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