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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of clothes do her daughters wear?
(a) Traditional.
(b) Sari's.
(c) Hippie.
(d) Western.

2. How does the narrator feel about Modou taking a second wife?
(a) She does not know he did so.
(b) Glad to have someone to share household chores.
(c) Betrayed.
(d) Indifferent since she is the first and most important wife.

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

4. Who pushes Aissatou, the narrator's daughter, to tell her mother about a difficult situation?
(a) Daba.
(b) The principal at the school where Aissatou attends.
(c) Farmata.
(d) Aissatou the elder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the men of Senegal treat an educated woman?

2. Why is the narrator upset about the donations from the people?

3. What does the narrator do to Modou about his second marriage?

4. How is Aunty Nabou received when she arrives at her destination?

5. What does the narrator believe her in-laws do not understand?

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