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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Snakes in the house.
(d) Babysitting her nieces and nephews.

2. Which wife receives the most money?
(a) The pretty one.
(b) They receive an equal amount.
(c) Neither receive money.
(d) The narrator.

3. Where did Modou go for a degree?
(a) Britian.
(b) South Africa.
(c) The United States.
(d) France.

4. What does the narrator tell the answer to question #120 in response to his offer of marriage?
(a) She would never marry him.
(b) She needs to think about it for awhile.
(c) She doesn't want to marry him but will live with him as his mistress.
(d) She would be delighted to marry him.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what academic class is Mawdo Fall having difficulties?

3. Who is the father of one of the narrator's soon-to-be-born grandchild?

4. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?

5. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?

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