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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years has the narrator been married to the deceased?
(a) 55
(b) 30
(c) 1
(d) 22

2. According to the narrator, what is the purpose of teaching?
(a) To shape young people's minds.
(b) To influence the next generation of men.
(c) To earn an above-average salary.
(d) To get out of household chores.

3. Why does Modou gain many promotions in his job?
(a) His charisma and devotion to the workers' plight.
(b) His father-in-law is in charge where he works.
(c) He does not accept a salary for his work.
(d) He bribes those in authority above him.

4. Who does Aissatou marry?
(a) Mawdo Bw.
(b) Daouda Dieng.
(c) Douda Raaw.
(d) Moudou.

5. Who does little Nabou marry at Aunty Nabou's insistence?
(a) Dieng Dw.
(b) No one; her aunt insists she remain single.
(c) Mawdo.
(d) Modou.

6. Who suffers a heart attack?
(a) Samba Diack.
(b) Modou.
(c) Mawdo Bâ.
(d) Iba.

7. What dos the narrator do as a profession?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A housewife.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A physician.

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

9. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?
(a) He loved to travel to America.
(b) He never believed in the Koran.
(c) He had two other wives secretly.
(d) He had serious financial problems.

10. What does the narrator believe her in-laws do not understand?
(a) Why Modou doesn't divorce the narrator.
(b) How education is so good for women.
(c) The duties of an employed mother.
(d) Why she married Modou.

11. Who discusses the mysteries of birth and death with the narrator?
(a) A Catholic priest in the room.
(b) The nurse in the deceased person's room.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) Dr. Mawdo Bw.

12. What do the participants donate to this person's funeral?
(a) Forty head of sheep.
(b) A slave to be sacrificed on the funeral pyre.
(c) Money.
(d) Land for the widows to live on.

13. Of what is Aunty Nabou proud?
(a) Her wedgewood china.
(b) Her noble origins.
(c) Her large herd of cows.
(d) Her son's profession.

14. What does Mawdo tell the narrator about having two sons with Nabou?
(a) That he has learned to love Nabou as much as Aissatou.
(b) That women do not understand that men are partly driven by animal instincts.
(c) That he will now divorce Nabou.
(d) That he is giving the boys up for adoption.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years has the second wife been married to the deceased?

2. What is Daouda Dieng's occupation?

3. What does Modou do with his degree?

4. What field is Modou's degree?

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

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