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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aunty Nabou demand?
(a) That her brother help her discipline Mawdo.
(b) To take little Nabou, her brother's daughter, back home with her.
(c) That they provide her a small stipend to live on.
(d) Enough money to move to the West Indies.

3. What is the traditional contribution for funeral expenses from others?
(a) Agricultural produce.
(b) Crafts to sell at market.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Nothing.

4. How does the narrator act upon hearing the news?
(a) She hides her distress from her visitors.
(b) She flies into a rage and slaps Modou.
(c) She is indifferent since she is first wife and most important.
(d) She immediately packs and leaves for the United States.

5. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?
(a) It is the reason she loses her teaching job.
(b) It is symbolic of the New Africa.
(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 is remarkable about the narrator?

2. Who does Aissatou marry?

3. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?

4. Why does the narrator believe it is useless to try to revive the person in question 5?

5. Who suffers a heart attack?

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