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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about Modou taking a second wife?
(a) Betrayed.
(b) She does not know he did so.
(c) Glad to have someone to share household chores.
(d) Indifferent since she is the first and most important wife.

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

3. What keeps Mawdo busy as a physician?
(a) Finding a cure for sickle cell anemia.
(b) The population boom.
(c) people People now prefer western medicine to the traditional medicine.
(d) The AIDS epidemic.

4. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?
(a) Her younger sister.
(b) Her twin daughters.
(c) Her friend, Aissatou.
(d) Her divorced husband.

5. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?
(a) A prayer for the resurrection of the deceased.
(b) A poem citing the deceased warrior deeds.
(c) KORAN verses.
(d) Verses from THE PROPHET.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sons does Aunty Nabou have?

2. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?

3. Where did Modou go for a degree?

4. How did the men of Senegal treat an educated woman?

5. Who is Daouda Dieng?

Short Essay Questions

1. What contributed to Modou's success in his work environment?

2. How does Aissatou respond to Mawdo accepting a second wife from his mother?

3. Describe the wake scene for Modou.

4. What is happening politically in these three chapters?

5. What is the response that many of those around Ramatoulaye have to the offer of marriage by Daouda and why?

6. What is Mawdo's response to Aissatou?

7. How is Daouda Dieng significant to the narrator?

8. What happens to the relationship between Modou and his first wife, the narrator? Do you think it is Binetou's fault for how Modou handles his two marriages?

9. How does the narrator react to Modou's death?

10. How might Aissatou's situation be a bigger problem in Senegal than for a woman with the same situation in the United States. What are the similarities?

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