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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator view herself at age fifty?
(a) As a liberated woman.
(b) As someone whose life is almost over.
(c) As a good catch for a wife.
(d) As someone too old to attract another man.

2. Who pushes Aissatou, the narrator's daughter, to tell her mother about a difficult situation?
(a) Daba.
(b) Farmata.
(c) Aissatou the elder.
(d) The principal at the school where Aissatou attends.

3. Who does the narrator blame for her husband taking a second wife?
(a) She says no one is to blame.
(b) Herself.
(c) Modou.
(d) Having too many children.

4. What happens when Modou and Binetou go out?
(a) They dance until the early morning hours.
(b) They enjoy themselves immensely.
(c) Young people quietly make fun of them.
(d) They argue about where to go.

5. From what type of background does Binetou come?
(a) Nobility.
(b) Upper class.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) A poor background.

6. Who gives the narrator a brand new car?
(a) Mawdo.
(b) Aissatou.
(c) Modou.
(d) Lady Mother-in-law.

7. What has Daouda Dieng been called publicly?
(a) A feminist.
(b) A racist.
(c) A candidate for presidency.
(d) An embezzler.

8. Who is disappointed about how the narrator handles Aissatou's problem?
(a) Modou.
(b) Mawbe.
(c) Aissatou the elder.
(d) Farmata.

9. How does Modou juggle the two marriages and wives?
(a) He decides to annul the second marriage.
(b) He moves the second wife in the same house as the first.
(c) He stays one week with one and the next with the other.
(d) He abandons the narrator and their life together.

10. How do the narrator's in-laws treat her after Modou marries Binetou?
(a) They tell her how bad a wife she was.
(b) They still visit her.
(c) They invite her to live with them.
(d) They shun her.

11. How does Binetou treat Modou?
(a) With gratitude for marrying her.
(b) With the proper respect of a wife to a husband.
(c) With awe and reverence.
(d) She makes fun of him.

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

13. What happens to her sons Alioune and Malick?
(a) They are kidnapped by their father.
(b) They both refuse to marry who their mother has chosen for them.
(c) They quit school to support their mother.
(d) They are hit by a motorcycle.

14. What does the narrator do to fill the void her husband's loss leaves?
(a) Listens to the radio all the time.
(b) Tries to find another husband.
(c) Babysits her grandchildren.
(d) Travels around the world.

15. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's choice to leave her husband and move to the United States?
(a) That Aissatou should have stayed.
(b) That Aissatou is immoral.
(c) That Aissatou never loved Mawdo.
(d) The narrator approves of the choice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she catch three of her daughters doing that infuriates the narrator?

2. What happens whenever the narrator goes to the movies alone?

3. When Daouda Dieng returns, what does he say he appreciates?

4. What has the narrator's daughter Aissatou kept from the narrator?

5. Now that Modou has left her, how does the narrator travel with her children?

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