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

2. From what type of background does Binetou come?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Nobility.
(c) Upper class.
(d) A poor background.

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

4. When is the narrator involved that her husband has married a second wife?
(a) She is never told.
(b) A year later.
(c) Six months before he does so.
(d) On the evening of the wedding.

5. How do the narrator and her friends feel about being teachers?
(a) It's a necessary evil.
(b) They love their profession.
(c) They hate teaching.
(d) It's something to pay the bills, though not very exciting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator believe about Lady mother-in-law?

2. What is ironic about Daouda Dieng's marriage proposal?

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

4. Who informs the narrator of the marriage?

5. Who is the narrator's neighbor?

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