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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Daouda Dieng say the narrator and he can bring to a marriage?
(a) Understanding and happines.
(b) Lots of children.
(c) The combined fortune of both of their houses.
(d) A new perspective on multiple marriages.

3. What does the narrator do to fill the void her husband's loss leaves?
(a) Babysits her grandchildren.
(b) Tries to find another husband.
(c) Listens to the radio all the time.
(d) Travels around the world.

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

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

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

7. In what academic class is Mawdo Fall having difficulties?
(a) English literature.
(b) Humanities.
(c) Calculus.
(d) Philosophy.

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

9. What is ironic about Daouda Dieng's marriage proposal?
(a) He is recently widowed.
(b) It is many years too late.
(c) He does not propose marriage, but rather an affair.
(d) He is already married, so the narrator would be the second wife.

10. Who gives the narrator a brand new car?
(a) Aissatou.
(b) Modou.
(c) Mawdo.
(d) Lady Mother-in-law.

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

12. What two woman does the narrator compare?
(a) Daba and Binetou.
(b) Aissatou and herself.
(c) Aunty Nabou and Lady Mother-in-law.
(d) Nabou and Binetou.

13. What does Daouda Dieng ask of the narrator?
(a) He does not come back to visit again.
(b) To ask her advice about his youngest son.
(c) To marry him.
(d) To run on a socialist ticket with him.

14. 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 an adequate job of providing for his family.
(c) He does not provide for them as he left them.
(d) He showers his family with expensive presents.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has Daouda Dieng been called publicly?

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

4. Who pushes Aissatou, the narrator's daughter, to tell her mother about a difficult situation?

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

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