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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 find when she rushes to the hospital?
(a) Her brother-in-law with a broken leg.
(b) Her new granddaughter in an incubator.
(c) Her husband in the ICU unit talking to a nurse.
(d) Her dead husband covered in a white sheet.

2. What is the reason the narrator gives for not marrying Daouda Dieng?
(a) She despises Daouda Dieng.
(b) She is moving to the United States.
(c) She does not want to be in another polygamous marriage.
(d) She is too old for that kind of foolishness.

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

4. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?
(a) A poem citing the deceased warrior deeds.
(b) A prayer for the resurrection of the deceased.
(c) Verses from THE PROPHET.
(d) KORAN verses.

5. What decision does the narrator make about her daughters?
(a) To send them to the United States for college.
(b) To pull them out of school and teach them traditional skills.
(c) To watch them more closely.
(d) To marry them by the time each is 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does little Nabou marry at Aunty Nabou's insistence?

2. What did the narrator's mother think of Modou?

3. Why is this test feared by Senegalese women?

4. What was the narrator's first impression of her future husband?

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

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