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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator believe it is useless to try to revive the person in question 5?
(a) Because this hospital has no electric paddles.
(b) Because it is this person's second heart attack this year.
(c) Because death is an act of fate.
(d) Because that person should die for sins commited.

2. How is Aunty Nabou received when she arrives at her destination?
(a) She is asked to return home immediately.
(b) With hesitation.
(c) With cold obligatory rituals.
(d) Like a princess.

3. For whom does Modou work?
(a) Shell oil.
(b) Trade union organizations.
(c) The president of the country.
(d) The tribal chieftain.

4. What does Modou complain about in his letters?
(a) The quality of the petit fours.
(b) Racial discrimination.
(c) The cold weather in France.
(d) The difficulty of the coursework.

5. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?
(a) Whose grief is genuine.
(b) How much each person will donate.
(c) If any were an enemy of the deceased.
(d) If she might find a man to marry among them.

6. According to the narrator, what did Modou do to gain her as a wife?
(a) Nothing, she chased Modou.
(b) He went to great lengths to have her.
(c) He promised her they'd move to America.
(d) He told her father she was pregnant.

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

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

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

10. 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) An affidavit with a list of what Binetou's villa contained.
(c) A court order doubling the amount.
(d) A box of jewelry for Mother-in-Law.

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

12. Who is Daouda Dieng?
(a) The boy her mother prefers over Modou.
(b) The narrator's maternal uncle.
(c) The head of the police in Senegal.
(d) The narrator's brother.

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

14. What does Mawdo, Aissatou's husband, admire about his father-in-law?
(a) His willingness to cry at his daughter's wedding.
(b) His ability to work though he is handicapped.
(c) His dexterity and artistry.
(d) His prize cow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?

2. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?

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

4. Who is Aunty Nabou?

5. How many children did the second wife bear the deceased?

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