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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps Mawdo busy as a physician?
(a) The AIDS epidemic.
(b) people People now prefer western medicine to the traditional medicine.
(c) Finding a cure for sickle cell anemia.
(d) The population boom.

2. Where did Modou go for a degree?
(a) France.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Britian.
(d) The United States.

3. How do many of the young people consider traditional crafts?
(a) As an honorable profession.
(b) As a necessary evil.
(c) As beneath them.
(d) As not worth learning.

4. What profession does Aunty Nabou insist her niece take up?
(a) Weaving.
(b) Veternarian.
(c) Midwifery.
(d) Nursing.

5. How many sons does Aunty Nabou have?
(a) Five.
(b) Just one, Mawdo.
(c) Six.
(d) None.

6. What reasons does the narrator give for Modou's taking a second wife?
(a) For money, since the second wife came from a wealthy family.
(b) For highter social status.
(c) Either love or madness.
(d) She doesn't have any idea.

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

8. How do the narrator and her friends feel about being teachers?
(a) They hate teaching.
(b) It's something to pay the bills, though not very exciting.
(c) They love their profession.
(d) It's a necessary evil.

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

10. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?
(a) Her friend, Aissatou.
(b) Her younger sister.
(c) Her divorced husband.
(d) Her twin daughters.

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

12. What is the first thing the narrator says in her letter?
(a) That she has moved to Canada.
(b) That her eldest daughter is dead.
(c) That she has just had a baby boy.
(d) That she lost her husband today.

13. How many years has the second wife been married to the deceased?
(a) 10
(b) 2
(c) 5
(d) 18

14. What does the narrator have to put up with regularly?
(a) Her sisters-in-law and mother-in-law's frequent intrusions.
(b) Babysitting her nieces and nephews.
(c) Her mother offering advice.
(d) Snakes in the house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Aissatou's brothers follow in their father's footsteps?

2. Who is Aissatou?

3. Of what significance is the narrator's unconventional marriage?

4. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?

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

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