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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 Daouda Dieng say the narrator and he can bring to a marriage?
(a) Understanding and happines.
(b) Lots of children.
(c) A new perspective on multiple marriages.
(d) The combined fortune of both of their houses.

2. What was the narrator's emotional response to an offer of marriage after Modou's death?
(a) Outrage at being treated as an object.
(b) Hesitant because of her children.
(c) Fearful but willing.
(d) Excited by the prospect.

3. Who informs the narrator of the marriage?
(a) Tamsir
(b) Mawdo Bw
(c) Diang Douba
(d) Modou

4. What was the narrator's first impression of her future husband?
(a) That he needed to gain a little weight.
(b) That he was not very bright.
(c) That he probably wasn't from her country.
(d) That he was attractive and intelligent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reasons does the narrator give for Modou's taking a second wife?

2. How long does the narrator have to stay indoors after the funeral?

3. When is the narrator involved that her husband has married a second wife?

4. Who pushes Aissatou, the narrator's daughter, to tell her mother about a difficult situation?

5. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?

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