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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Daouda Dieng think is necessary to help the development of Senegal?
(a) More colleges to open in Senegal.
(b) Lots of foreign aid from the United States.
(c) For woman to stay home and have babies.
(d) A fight against poverty and for women to be politically involved.

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

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

5. What does the narrator believe about Lady mother-in-law?
(a) She gave her permission for Binetou to marry so Binetou would be happy.
(b) She wants to escape poverty through her daughter Binetou's marriage.
(c) She was appalled at the marriage of Binetou to Modou.
(d) She does not yet know about the marriage.

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

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

8. What happens whenever the narrator goes to the movies alone?
(a) She is able to have all the popcorn to herself.
(b) She sneaks in without paying as she is now poor.
(c) She receives looks of astonishment.
(d) She is accosted by men.

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

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

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

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

13. Of what is Aissatou's son, Mawdo Fall, a victim?
(a) A car accident.
(b) Racism.
(c) An airplane crash.
(d) Assault.

14. 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.

15. What does the narrator think hurt Modou's career?
(a) His greed.
(b) His lack of education.
(c) Marrying a second wife.
(d) The narrator's full social life.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what academic class is Mawdo Fall having difficulties?

2. Why does the narrator learn to drive?

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

4. Who is disappointed about how the narrator handles Aissatou's problem?

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

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