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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about Modou even several years after he marries Binetou?
(a) She still loves him.
(b) She is indifferent to him.
(c) She wishes he would die.
(d) She hopes Binetou leaves him.

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

3. How does Nabou feel about Mawdo?
(a) She likes him but is in love with a man from her hometown.
(b) She is repulsed by him.
(c) She loves him.
(d) She despises him.

4. Who tells the narrator of Binetou's generous "sugar daddy"?
(a) Aunty Nabou
(b) Nabou
(c) Daba
(d) Aissatou

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

6. After the first visit, what does Daouda Dieng promise?
(a) He will return to ask her something.
(b) That he will give her some money for food.
(c) He doesn't make any promises.
(d) That he will have some thugs beat up Modou.

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

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

9. What does the narrator think of Aissatou's choice to leave her husband and move to the United States?
(a) The narrator approves of the choice.
(b) That Aissatou never loved Mawdo.
(c) That Aissatou should have stayed.
(d) That Aissatou is immoral.

10. What happens to her sons Alioune and Malick?
(a) They are kidnapped by their father.
(b) They quit school to support their mother.
(c) They both refuse to marry who their mother has chosen for them.
(d) They are hit by a motorcycle.

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

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

13. 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 despises Daouda Dieng.
(c) She is too old for that kind of foolishness.
(d) She is moving to the United States.

14. Who is disappointed about how the narrator handles Aissatou's problem?
(a) Modou.
(b) Mawbe.
(c) Farmata.
(d) Aissatou the elder.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Binetou feel about her marriage to Modou?

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

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

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

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