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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Modou feel about being married to Binetou?
(a) He believes she tricked him into marrying her.
(b) He is sorry he married her.
(c) He is happy.
(d) He expects to divorce her after he is tired of her.

3. How does the narrator respond to Daouda Dieng's question from #134 above?
(a) She says no.
(b) She say yes.
(c) She asks for a year's wait.
(d) She give no response hoping he'll forget.

4. What does the narrator tell the answer to question #120 in response to his offer of marriage?
(a) She needs to think about it for awhile.
(b) She would be delighted to marry him.
(c) She would never marry him.
(d) She doesn't want to marry him but will live with him as his mistress.

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

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

7. Why does the narrator learn to drive?
(a) She cannot drive; she hires a driver.
(b) To make Aissatou proud.
(c) To prove to Modou that she does not need him.
(d) So she can transport her children.

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

9. What is the narrator's oldest daughter like?
(a) Defers all decisions to her mother.
(b) Too lazy to study in school.
(c) Strong-minded.
(d) Submissive to men.

10. What does the narrator say about Tamsir as a provider?
(a) He is a poor provider and his wifes cannot make ends meet.
(b) He does not provide for them as he left them.
(c) He does an adequate job of providing for his family.
(d) He showers his family with expensive presents.

11. Who tells the narrator he will marry her after the mourning period is over for Modou?
(a) Tamsir.
(b) Mawdo.
(c) Samba Diack.
(d) Daouda Dieng.

12. What does Daba suggest that her mother (the narrator) do?
(a) To find herself a second husband.
(b) She encourages her mother to follow Aissatou's footsteps and leave her husband.
(c) To put up with it.
(d) To ask for marriage counseling.

13. What decision does the narrator make about her daughters?
(a) To watch them more closely.
(b) To send them to the United States for college.
(c) To marry them by the time each is 21.
(d) To pull them out of school and teach them traditional skills.

14. What happens when Modou and Binetou go out?
(a) Young people quietly make fun of them.
(b) They dance until the early morning hours.
(c) They enjoy themselves immensely.
(d) They argue about where to go.

15. What does the narrator fear about her child-raising skills?
(a) That she was too strict.
(b) That she has been too permissive.
(c) That she let her mother-in-law take care of the kids too much.
(d) That she relied upon Modou too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Daouda Dieng returns, what does he say he appreciates?

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

3. Who helps care for the narrator's children when they are sick?

4. Who is coming to visit the narrator in Chapter 22?

5. What was the narrator's emotional response to an offer of marriage after Modou's death?

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