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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells the narrator of Binetou's generous "sugar daddy"?
(a) Daba
(b) Aunty Nabou
(c) Nabou
(d) Aissatou

2. Who is disappointed about how the narrator handles Aissatou's problem?
(a) Mawbe.
(b) Aissatou the elder.
(c) Modou.
(d) Farmata.

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

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

5. What keeps Mawdo busy as a physician?
(a) The population boom.
(b) Finding a cure for sickle cell anemia.
(c) people People now prefer western medicine to the traditional medicine.
(d) The AIDS epidemic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Now that Modou has left her, how does the narrator travel with her children?

2. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?

3. What does the narrator do to Modou about his second marriage?

4. Who leads the country when the republic is born?

5. Who seems to have romantic intentions for the narrator since Modou left her?

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