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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the goal of the narrator's education?
(a) To make her attractive to men.
(b) To earn a degree.
(c) To enable her to home school her children.
(d) To emancipate her from the traditional roles of African women.

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

3. 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.

4. What is Aunty Nabou's goal in raising her niece?
(a) To have a female to care for her in her old age.
(b) To shape her into what she thinks a noble woman should be-obedient.
(c) To help her become highly educated.
(d) To find her a good husband.

5. What field is Modou's degree?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Law.
(d) Mathematics.

6. When did the narrator realize that Modou was the man for her for life?
(a) During their first dance.
(b) When he asked her to marry him.
(c) When he held their first child in his arms.
(d) After he dies.

7. What do the female relatives do for the deceased?
(a) Wash the dead person's body.
(b) Light the funeral pyre.
(c) Wail while walking around the outside of the home.
(d) Cover their heads with yellow cloth for two weeks.

8. What is the difference between the narrator's friends and fellow teachers versus her in-laws?
(a) Her in-laws are from Kenya, not Senegal.
(b) Her in-laws belong to a different political party from her friends.
(c) Her friends are modern-minded; whereas the in-laws stick to tradition.
(d) She is able to relax with them, which she can't do with her in-laws.

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

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

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

12. How does Aissatou respond to Mawdo's taking a second wife under pressure from his mother?
(a) She agrees to the arrangement, but the second wife is not allowed in Aissatou's home.
(b) She is excited for help in the household.
(c) She takes her four sons and moves to the United States.
(d) She kills herself.

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

14. Why is the narrator upset about the donations from the people?
(a) The people resent donating.
(b) The people do not donate very much.
(c) Most people decline to donate?
(d) It's too late to save others with needed medications.

15. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?
(a) The shamen of the tribe.
(b) All the children from all the wives.
(c) The dead person's co-wife.
(d) The deceased male relatives.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Aunty Nabou received when she arrives at her destination?

2. Of what does the younger generation speak?

3. What, in the narrator's opinion, does modernity do?

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

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

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