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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom do the wives give money?
(a) No one; they keep it all for themselves.
(b) Their children.
(c) Their in-laws.
(d) The government in the form of taxes.

2. What does the narrator believe her in-laws do not understand?
(a) How education is so good for women.
(b) The duties of an employed mother.
(c) Why she married Modou.
(d) Why Modou doesn't divorce the narrator.

3. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?
(a) Her twin daughters.
(b) Her divorced husband.
(c) Her friend, Aissatou.
(d) Her younger sister.

4. How does Modou juggle the two marriages and wives?
(a) He decides to annul the second marriage.
(b) He abandons the narrator and their life together.
(c) He stays one week with one and the next with the other.
(d) He moves the second wife in the same house as the first.

5. What is the mirasse?
(a) A payment of 10 dollars from the government for the widow.
(b) A pilgrimage to Mecca.
(c) A vision the widow finds on a quest in the desert.
(d) A family meeting required by the Koran where the deceased's secrets are exposed.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what did Modou do to gain her as a wife?

2. What profession does Aunty Nabou insist her niece take up?

3. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?

4. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?

5. What is another secret revealed about the deceased?

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