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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the narrator blame for her husband taking a second wife?
(a) Herself.
(b) She says no one is to blame.
(c) Modou.
(d) Having too many children.

3. Who is coming to visit the narrator in Chapter 22?
(a) Daba.
(b) Asissatou.
(c) Mawba.
(d) Dieng.

4. Who informs the narrator of the marriage?
(a) Modou
(b) Tamsir
(c) Diang Douba
(d) Mawdo Bw

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

9. Who seems to have romantic intentions for the narrator since Modou left her?
(a) Daouda Dieng.
(b) Mawda.
(c) No one since the narrator is still officially married.
(d) Seema.

10. 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.

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

12. What is the name of one of the narrator's children?
(a) Aissatou.
(b) Douda.
(c) Mgetu.
(d) Ubule.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of clothes do her daughters wear?

3. What is the narrator's first name?

4. What two woman does the narrator compare?

5. Who is the narrator's neighbor?

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