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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 population boom.
(b) The AIDS epidemic.
(c) Finding a cure for sickle cell anemia.
(d) people People now prefer western medicine to the traditional medicine.

2. What does the deceased do when he meets Binetou?
(a) Sends her to live with his brother as a third wife.
(b) Sends her to school to learn how to manage the farmstead.
(c) Forces her to climb the Ngorongoro crator with him.
(d) Removes her from school.

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

4. In Modou's letters to the narrator while getting his degree, for what did he say he longed?
(a) Enough money to come home and visit.
(b) A home-cooked meal.
(c) For the narrator's presence and black complexion.
(d) His family and friends.

5. What is another secret revealed about the deceased?
(a) He never legally married his second wife.
(b) He made a pact with an Inman to send his son to England.
(c) He had four illegitimate children.
(d) He had abandoned his first wife (the narrator) and her children to live with Binetou.

6. What is remarkable about the narrator?
(a) She was the only female pilot in Senegal.
(b) She won an Olympic gold medal in track.
(c) She had been one of the first educated women in Senegal.
(d) She gave birth to a set of sextuplets all of whom survived.

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

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

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

10. Which wife receives the most money?
(a) They receive an equal amount.
(b) The pretty one.
(c) Neither receive money.
(d) The narrator.

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

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

13. What had the deceased bought to please his second wife?
(a) A new mercedes benz.
(b) A diamond necklace.
(c) Two thoroughbred horses for racing.
(d) A nice villa.

14. 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 trip to Europe.
(c) A new home.
(d) Three cows and a bull.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator's mother feel about the narrator's relationship with Modou?

2. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?

3. Who suffers a heart attack?

4. According to the narrator, what did Modou do to gain her as a wife?

5. How do many of the young people consider traditional crafts?

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