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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 is the goal of the narrator's education?
(a) To make her attractive to men.
(b) To enable her to home school her children.
(c) To emancipate her from the traditional roles of African women.
(d) To earn a degree.

2. What does Aunty Nabou demand?
(a) Enough money to move to the West Indies.
(b) That they provide her a small stipend to live on.
(c) To take little Nabou, her brother's daughter, back home with her.
(d) That her brother help her discipline Mawdo.

3. How does Modou feel about being married to Binetou?
(a) He expects to divorce her after he is tired of her.
(b) He believes she tricked him into marrying her.
(c) He is happy.
(d) He is sorry he married her.

4. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?
(a) To ask for marriage counseling.
(b) She encourages her mother to follow Aissatou's footsteps and leave her husband.
(c) To find herself a second husband.
(d) To put up with it.

5. What does Mawdo tell the narrator about having two sons with Nabou?
(a) That women do not understand that men are partly driven by animal instincts.
(b) That he has learned to love Nabou as much as Aissatou.
(c) That he is giving the boys up for adoption.
(d) That he will now divorce Nabou.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daba produce when Lady Mother-in-Law wants the monthly salary continued?

2. Who is Aissatou?

3. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?

4. For whom does Modou work?

5. What is the family's response to the narrator's non-traditional simple wedding ceremony?

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