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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 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.

2. Who informs the narrator of the marriage?
(a) Modou
(b) Mawdo Bw
(c) Tamsir
(d) Diang Douba

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

4. After the first visit, what does Daouda Dieng promise?
(a) That he will have some thugs beat up Modou.
(b) That he will give her some money for food.
(c) He doesn't make any promises.
(d) He will return to ask her something.

5. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?
(a) It is symbolic of the New Africa.
(b) It is the reason she loses her teaching job.
(c) It compels new laws granting women complete freedom.
(d) It is the first one to have ever taken place in Senegal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many years have the narrator and Modou been married when he takes a second wife?

3. Who is Aissatou?

4. How do many of the young people consider traditional crafts?

5. How does the narrator feel around Daouda Dieng?

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