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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's first name?
(a) Aissatou.
(b) Requwbe.
(c) Ramatoulaye.
(d) Daba.

2. How do the narrator's in-laws treat her after Modou marries Binetou?
(a) They shun her.
(b) They tell her how bad a wife she was.
(c) They invite her to live with them.
(d) They still visit her.

3. How does the narrator feel around Daouda Dieng?
(a) An equal.
(b) As just another woman to take care of a man.
(c) Put down.
(d) Desireable.

4. When Daouda Dieng returns, what does he say he appreciates?
(a) The narrator's rice pudding.
(b) Talking politics with the narrator's children.
(c) Senegal's socialism.
(d) Having been a successful physcian.

5. How does Modou juggle the two marriages and wives?
(a) He abandons the narrator and their life together.
(b) He decides to annul the second marriage.
(c) He stays one week with one and the next with the other.
(d) He moves the second wife in the same house as the first.

6. Who does the narrator blame for her children's problems?
(a) Their own selves.
(b) Herself.
(c) Her deceased husband.
(d) No one; they have few problems.

7. What does the narrator do to Modou about his second marriage?
(a) She pretends it didn't happen.
(b) She asks him to have it annulled.
(c) She forgives him.
(d) She gives him an ultimatum.

8. What kind of clothes do her daughters wear?
(a) Western.
(b) Sari's.
(c) Traditional.
(d) Hippie.

9. What is the reason the narrator gives for not marrying Daouda Dieng?
(a) She does not want to be in another polygamous marriage.
(b) She is moving to the United States.
(c) She is too old for that kind of foolishness.
(d) She despises Daouda Dieng.

10. Who is the narrator's neighbor?
(a) The griot woman.
(b) A widower with two children.
(c) Her oldest daughter who is married.
(d) Her mother-in-law.

11. Who is the father of one of the narrator's soon-to-be-born grandchild?
(a) Dieng Douda.
(b) Moubo Tza.
(c) Ibrahima Sall.
(d) Mawba Sou.

12. When is the narrator involved that her husband has married a second wife?
(a) On the evening of the wedding.
(b) Six months before he does so.
(c) A year later.
(d) She is never told.

13. What has Daouda Dieng been called publicly?
(a) A feminist.
(b) A candidate for presidency.
(c) A racist.
(d) An embezzler.

14. From what type of background does Binetou come?
(a) Nobility.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) A poor background.
(d) Upper class.

15. How does the narrator act upon hearing the news?
(a) She flies into a rage and slaps Modou.
(b) She immediately packs and leaves for the United States.
(c) She hides her distress from her visitors.
(d) She is indifferent since she is first wife and most important.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people think about the narrator rejecting Daouda Dieng and others for marriage?

2. How did the narrator feel about her marriage before Modou abandons her?

3. What does the narrator tell the answer to question #120 in response to his offer of marriage?

4. How does Modou feel about being married to Binetou?

5. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?

(see the answer keys)

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