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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the first visit, what does Daouda Dieng promise?
(a) That he will have some thugs beat up Modou.
(b) He will return to ask her something.
(c) That he will give her some money for food.
(d) He doesn't make any promises.

2. What do the narrator and her friends do at their house parties?
(a) Sell tupperware.
(b) Compare and evaluate their husbands.
(c) Organize political rallies.
(d) Relive their youth to the beat of old songs.

3. What was the narrator's emotional response to an offer of marriage after Modou's death?
(a) Fearful but willing.
(b) Excited by the prospect.
(c) Outrage at being treated as an object.
(d) Hesitant because of her children.

4. What does Ramatoulaye appreciate about Ibrahima?
(a) The nobility of his family.
(b) His financial security.
(c) His good looks.
(d) His decisiveness.

5. What has the narrator's daughter Aissatou kept from the narrator?
(a) That she is three months pregnant.
(b) That she is planning to run away to Europe.
(c) That she has quit school.
(d) That her boyfriend already has one wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is coming to visit the narrator in Chapter 22?

2. What had the deceased bought to please his second wife?

3. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?

4. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?

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

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