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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is disappointed about how the narrator handles Aissatou's problem?
(a) Modou.
(b) Mawbe.
(c) Farmata.
(d) Aissatou the elder.

2. What does Modou think of the policies of the dominant party?
(a) He thinks they are weak.
(b) He believes they are too traditional.
(c) He thinks they are instituting wonderful changes.
(d) He believes they are depleting the country's resources and wasting the money.

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

4. What happens whenever the narrator goes to the movies alone?
(a) She sneaks in without paying as she is now poor.
(b) She receives looks of astonishment.
(c) She is accosted by men.
(d) She is able to have all the popcorn to herself.

5. What is the difference between the men and women during the gathering for the deceased?
(a) The women talk and the men are silent.
(b) The men eat but the women do not.
(c) The men are dressed in native garb, but not the women.
(d) The men are loud and boisterous while the women weep quietly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Binetou treat Modou?

2. How does Aissatou respond to Mawdo's taking a second wife under pressure from his mother?

3. How many children did the second wife bear the deceased?

4. What do the narrator and her friends do at their house parties?

5. How many years have passed since the end of chapter 12 and the beginning of chapter 13?

(see the answer key)

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