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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator do to Modou about his second marriage?
(a) She asks him to have it annulled.
(b) She forgives him.
(c) She gives him an ultimatum.
(d) She pretends it didn't happen.

2. Who inherits Binetou's villa after Modou's death?
(a) No one, it had to be sold to pay taxes.
(b) Binetou.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Daba and her husband.

3. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?
(a) To put up with it.
(b) To find herself a second husband.
(c) She encourages her mother to follow Aissatou's footsteps and leave her husband.
(d) To ask for marriage counseling.

4. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?
(a) Because her future husband is blackmailing her.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) Her great-Aunt who did the same.
(d) What she learns in school.

5. What does the narrator have to put up with regularly?
(a) Babysitting her nieces and nephews.
(b) Her sisters-in-law and mother-in-law's frequent intrusions.
(c) Her mother offering advice.
(d) Snakes in the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might one describe the culture of the Senegal people?

2. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?

3. How does the narrator view herself at age fifty?

4. When is the narrator involved that her husband has married a second wife?

5. What is the reason the narrator gives for not marrying Daouda Dieng?

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