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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children does the woman bear the deceased?
(a) 0
(b) 15
(c) 12
(d) 2

2. What is the goal of the narrator's education?
(a) To make her attractive to men.
(b) To enable her to home school her children.
(c) To earn a degree.
(d) To emancipate her from the traditional roles of African women.

3. What was the narrator's first impression of her future husband?
(a) That he probably wasn't from her country.
(b) That he was attractive and intelligent.
(c) That he was not very bright.
(d) That he needed to gain a little weight.

4. What does Modou complain about in his letters?
(a) The quality of the petit fours.
(b) The difficulty of the coursework.
(c) Racial discrimination.
(d) The cold weather in France.

5. Of what is Aunty Nabou proud?
(a) Her son's profession.
(b) Her wedgewood china.
(c) Her noble origins.
(d) Her large herd of cows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession does Aunty Nabou insist her niece take up?

2. Who did Modou support politically?

3. Who discusses the mysteries of birth and death with the narrator?

4. How many years has the second wife been married to the deceased?

5. How did the men of Senegal treat an educated woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast the second marriages of Mawdo and Modou.

2. What does people think about Mawdo's marriage to Aissatou?

3. What does Modou do upon returning from France?

4. What contributed to Modou's success in his work environment?

5. How does the narrator adapt to the absence of her husband, Modou?

6. Discuss the ritual of taking down the hair.

7. What does the narrator think of those who go to school instead of learning traditional crafts?

8. Why does the narrator rush to the hospital and what does she find?

9. With what does Aissatou surprise the narrator and what is Modou's response? Does it surprise you, the reader, that another woman would give a car to a her best friend when the husband is not providing for her?

10. What evidence of Modou's negligence to his first family is there? How does the narrator react?

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