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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) Because her future husband is blackmailing her.
(c) Her great-Aunt who did the same.
(d) What she learns in school.

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

3. What field is Modou's degree?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Law.

4. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?
(a) Aissatou is not good enough for the man she marries.
(b) The man she marries is ugly.
(c) The man she marries is Chinese.
(d) The man she marries is poor.

5. How many years have the narrator and Modou been married when he takes a second wife?
(a) 25
(b) 19
(c) 33
(d) 12

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difference between the men and women during the gathering for the deceased?

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

3. What does Aunty Nabou demand?

4. What is the difference between the narrator's friends and fellow teachers versus her in-laws?

5. What two woman does the narrator compare?

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