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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?
(a) She disapproved of it at first.
(b) She was not alive at the time.
(c) She didn't know about it.
(d) She thought it was wonderful.

2. How long does the narrator have to stay indoors after the funeral?
(a) As long as it takes for her hair to grow long again.
(b) Four months and ten days.
(c) She does not have to stay indoors.
(d) Three days.

3. What did the narrator's mother think of Modou?
(a) He was kind and generous.
(b) He was too good to be true.
(c) He wouldn't be a good provider.
(d) He was ugly.

4. To what does the narrator compare teachers?
(a) Evangelical ministers.
(b) Slaves from the Roman times.
(c) An army of priests-in charge of people's souls.
(d) Socrates and Aristotole.

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

6. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?
(a) The older ones.
(b) She has no brothers.
(c) None of them take up their father's occupation.
(d) The younger ones.

7. What did the deceased give Lady Mother-in-Law when he desires to marry Binetou?
(a) A new home.
(b) Three cows and a bull.
(c) A trip to Europe.
(d) A signed paper in which he committed to paying Binetou a monthly salary.

8. Of what does the younger generation speak?
(a) Moving to Europe or the United States.
(b) The need for more computer literacy.
(c) Independence.
(d) Becoming a democracy.

9. To whom do the wives give money?
(a) Their children.
(b) No one; they keep it all for themselves.
(c) The government in the form of taxes.
(d) Their in-laws.

10. Who leads the country when the republic is born?
(a) A group of 15 men.
(b) A dictator who is elected through corruption.
(c) The dominant political party.
(d) The former king, who agrees to share power.

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

12. What is the narrator's state of mind at the opening of the book?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Happy.
(c) Distraught.
(d) Angry.

13. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's in-laws?
(a) That they take advantage of Aissatou.
(b) That they should not have moved to the United States.
(c) That they do not respect Aissatou.
(d) That they are wonderfully warm people.

14. What does Daba produce when Lady Mother-in-Law wants the monthly salary continued?
(a) Four witnesses that say Mother-in-Law abused the deceased.
(b) A court order doubling the amount.
(c) An affidavit with a list of what Binetou's villa contained.
(d) A box of jewelry for Mother-in-Law.

15. How might one describe the culture of the Senegal people?
(a) Rigid.
(b) They don't really have a distinct culture separate from other African countries.
(c) Adaptable.
(d) Complex and difficult to understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the narrator and her friends feel about being teachers?

2. Who is Daouda Dieng?

3. Who is Aissatou?

4. What field is Modou's degree?

5. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?

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