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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator upset about the sister-in-laws song?
(a) Because they do not sing the complete song.
(b) Because they praise both wifes equally.
(c) Because they do not remember the narrator's name.
(d) Because they sing out of key.

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

3. What is a test feared by Senegalese women?
(a) A ritual to discover if a woman is a virgin.
(b) A test to learn if a woman is pregnant.
(c) The widow(s) have to be branded.
(d) Their sisters-in-law have to take down the new widows' hair.

4. How does the narrator view herself at age fifty?
(a) As a liberated woman.
(b) As someone too old to attract another man.
(c) As someone whose life is almost over.
(d) As a good catch for a wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is remarkable about the narrator?

2. Who tells the narrator he will marry her after the mourning period is over for Modou?

3. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?

4. What kind of clothes do her daughters wear?

5. What two woman does the narrator compare?

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