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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?
(a) She disapproved of it at first.
(b) She thought it was wonderful.
(c) She was not alive at the time.
(d) She didn't know about it.

2. What had the deceased bought to please his second wife?
(a) A nice villa.
(b) A new mercedes benz.
(c) A diamond necklace.
(d) Two thoroughbred horses for racing.

3. Why is this test feared by Senegalese women?
(a) It determines who will marry her.
(b) It can sometimes result in death.
(c) It is very painful.
(d) It reveals what others think about her.

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

5. How does Nabou feel about Mawdo?
(a) She despises him.
(b) She is repulsed by him.
(c) She likes him but is in love with a man from her hometown.
(d) She loves him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Aissatou?

2. What does Modou do with his degree?

3. What does the deceased do when he meets Binetou?

4. What does Mawdo tell the narrator about having two sons with Nabou?

5. What does the narrator do to fill the void her husband's loss leaves?

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