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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator respond to Daouda Dieng's looks of admiration?
(a) She is embarrassed.
(b) She is hoping he wants to marry her.
(c) She lowers her eyes in submission.
(d) She flirts with him.

2. What is proof that times have changed?
(a) The new president of Senegal is a woman.
(b) Her son is accepted at Oxford in England.
(c) Ramatoulaye's daughter's pregnancy though she is not married.
(d) That woman are now considered equals to men in Senegal.

3. Who did Modou support politically?
(a) His own small group.
(b) The dominant party.
(c) He wanted to stay part of the British empire.
(d) The political party who opposed the dominant one.

4. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?
(a) To ask for marriage counseling.
(b) To put up with it.
(c) To find herself a second husband.
(d) She encourages her mother to follow Aissatou's footsteps and leave her husband.

5. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?
(a) The man she marries is ugly.
(b) The man she marries is Chinese.
(c) The man she marries is poor.
(d) Aissatou is not good enough for the man she marries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Farmata think of Ibrahima?

2. How long does the narrator have to stay indoors after the funeral?

3. Who tells the narrator of Binetou's generous "sugar daddy"?

4. Which wife receives the most money?

5. How does Binetou treat Modou?

(see the answer key)

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