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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the occupation of Aissatou's father?
(a) Politician.
(b) Painter.
(c) Physician.
(d) Blacksmith.

4. 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 had been one of the first educated women in Senegal.
(d) She won an Olympic gold medal in track.

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

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

7. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?
(a) Verses from THE PROPHET.
(b) A poem citing the deceased warrior deeds.
(c) A prayer for the resurrection of the deceased.
(d) KORAN verses.

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

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

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

11. What is the difference between the men and women during the gathering for the deceased?
(a) The men are loud and boisterous while the women weep quietly.
(b) The men are dressed in native garb, but not the women.
(c) The men eat but the women do not.
(d) The women talk and the men are silent.

12. What does Mawdo tell the narrator about having two sons with Nabou?
(a) That he will now divorce Nabou.
(b) That women do not understand that men are partly driven by animal instincts.
(c) That he has learned to love Nabou as much as Aissatou.
(d) That he is giving the boys up for adoption.

13. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?
(a) What she learns in school.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) Because her future husband is blackmailing her.
(d) Her great-Aunt who did the same.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What keeps Mawdo busy as a physician?

3. What is the family's response to the narrator's non-traditional simple wedding ceremony?

4. What does Daba produce when Lady Mother-in-Law wants the monthly salary continued?

5. What does the narrator believe her in-laws do not understand?

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