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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. Who does little Nabou marry at Aunty Nabou's insistence?
(a) Mawdo.
(b) Dieng Dw.
(c) Modou.
(d) No one; her aunt insists she remain single.

2. How is Aunty Nabou received when she arrives at her destination?
(a) With hesitation.
(b) She is asked to return home immediately.
(c) Like a princess.
(d) With cold obligatory rituals.

3. What is Daouda Dieng's occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Herdsman.
(c) Professor.
(d) Physician.

4. What do the narrator and her friends do at their house parties?
(a) Organize political rallies.
(b) Relive their youth to the beat of old songs.
(c) Sell tupperware.
(d) Compare and evaluate their husbands.

5. Who is Aunty Nabou?
(a) The narrator's second cousin.
(b) Mawdo's mother.
(c) The narrator's mother-in-law.
(d) The mother of the country's president.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Aissatou?

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

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

4. What is the first thing the narrator says in her letter?

5. What does Modou do with his degree?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mawdo's mother take revenge agains Aissatou?

2. Why does Modou go to France?

3. What evidence is there that racism exists in Senegal? What is the narrator's response to the problem?

4. How does Aissatou respond to Mawdo accepting a second wife from his mother?

5. What is the irony in the marriage offer from Dauoda?

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

7. How would you describe Ramatoulaye's attitudes about men and women? Could she be considered a feminist?

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

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

10. What is one thing that school does for the narrator?

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