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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, in the narrator's opinion, does modernity do?
(a) It improves the country immensely.
(b) It causes immoral behavior among the young people.
(c) It increases live births.
(d) It signifies the slow death of traditional trades.

3. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?
(a) Aissatou is not good enough for the man she marries.
(b) The man she marries is ugly.
(c) The man she marries is poor.
(d) The man she marries is Chinese.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people think about the narrator rejecting Daouda Dieng and others for marriage?

2. Who is Aissatou?

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

4. Who does Aissatou marry?

5. Who informs the narrator of the marriage?

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