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

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

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

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

5. What was the narrator's emotional response to an offer of marriage after Modou's death?
(a) Hesitant because of her children.
(b) Excited by the prospect.
(c) Outrage at being treated as an object.
(d) Fearful but willing.

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

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

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

9. What does she catch three of her daughters doing that infuriates the narrator?
(a) Piercing their ears.
(b) Smoking.
(c) Entertaining boys at home while their mother is gone.
(d) Corresponding with boys on the internet.

10. Who makes repairs around the narrator's house now that her husband has abandoned her?
(a) No one; the narrator lets the house fall apart.
(b) The narrator's uncle.
(c) Mawdo.
(d) The narrator.

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

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

13. What is Ibrahima Sall's occupation?
(a) A physician.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A law student.
(d) An infantry man in the military.

14. Who helps care for the narrator's children when they are sick?
(a) Mawdo Bw.
(b) Daba.
(c) Aissatou.
(d) The in-laws.

15. What do people think about the narrator rejecting Daouda Dieng and others for marriage?
(a) That she is wise to forget about another marriage.
(b) That she is gold digging.
(c) That she is unstable.
(d) That she wants to marry out of a need for revenge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are "the trio?"

2. How does the narrator view herself at age fifty?

3. What does Daouda Dieng ask of the narrator?

4. Who does the narrator blame for her husband taking a second wife?

5. How does Modou juggle the two marriages and wives?

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