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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator feel about Modou taking a second wife?
(a) Glad to have someone to share household chores.
(b) Betrayed.
(c) She does not know he did so.
(d) Indifferent since she is the first and most important wife.

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

4. How do the narrator and her friends feel about being teachers?
(a) They love their profession.
(b) They hate teaching.
(c) It's something to pay the bills, though not very exciting.
(d) It's a necessary evil.

5. How does Binetou feel about her marriage to Modou?
(a) She hates being married so young.
(b) She is indifferent.
(c) She misses her former life.
(d) She is glad to be taken care of.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Modou juggle the two marriages and wives?

2. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?

3. How many children does the woman bear the deceased?

4. What is the name of Modou's friend who Modou introduces to the narrator and her friends?

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

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