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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Modou juggle the two marriages and wives?
(a) He decides to annul the second marriage.
(b) He stays one week with one and the next with the other.
(c) He moves the second wife in the same house as the first.
(d) He abandons the narrator and their life together.

2. How many years has the narrator been married to the deceased?
(a) 1
(b) 30
(c) 55
(d) 22

3. What is the mirasse?
(a) A pilgrimage to Mecca.
(b) A payment of 10 dollars from the government for the widow.
(c) A vision the widow finds on a quest in the desert.
(d) A family meeting required by the Koran where the deceased's secrets are exposed.

4. What is the narrator's oldest daughter like?
(a) Submissive to men.
(b) Too lazy to study in school.
(c) Defers all decisions to her mother.
(d) Strong-minded.

5. Who is the narrator's neighbor?
(a) The griot woman.
(b) A widower with two children.
(c) Her oldest daughter who is married.
(d) Her mother-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator respond to Daouda Dieng's question from #134 above?

2. What profession does Aunty Nabou insist her niece take up?

3. How do the narrator's in-laws treat her after Modou marries Binetou?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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