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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 dos the narrator do as a profession?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A physician.
(c) A housewife.
(d) A lawyer.

2. Who does Aissatou marry?
(a) Douda Raaw.
(b) Mawdo Bw.
(c) Daouda Dieng.
(d) Moudou.

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

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

5. What does Mawdo, Aissatou's husband, admire about his father-in-law?
(a) His prize cow.
(b) His dexterity and artistry.
(c) His ability to work though he is handicapped.
(d) His willingness to cry at his daughter's wedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in the narrator's opinion, does modernity do?

2. How does Modou juggle the two marriages and wives?

3. What is the goal of the narrator's education?

4. How does the narrator respond to Daouda Dieng's question from #134 above?

5. What has Daouda Dieng been called publicly?

(see the answer key)

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