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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. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?
(a) He never believed in the Koran.
(b) He loved to travel to America.
(c) He had serious financial problems.
(d) He had two other wives secretly.

2. What does the deceased do when he meets Binetou?
(a) Sends her to live with his brother as a third wife.
(b) Removes her from school.
(c) Sends her to school to learn how to manage the farmstead.
(d) Forces her to climb the Ngorongoro crator with him.

3. What is Aunty Nabou's goal in raising her niece?
(a) To find her a good husband.
(b) To shape her into what she thinks a noble woman should be-obedient.
(c) To have a female to care for her in her old age.
(d) To help her become highly educated.

4. What is the mirasse?
(a) A family meeting required by the Koran where the deceased's secrets are exposed.
(b) A pilgrimage to Mecca.
(c) A vision the widow finds on a quest in the desert.
(d) A payment of 10 dollars from the government for the widow.

5. What is the narrator's state of mind at the opening of the book?
(a) Distraught.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Angry.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another secret revealed about the deceased?

2. According to tradition, who stays with the narrator during this tragic time?

3. How many sons does Aunty Nabou have?

4. What, in the narrator's opinion, does modernity do?

5. Who suffers a heart attack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a mirasse?

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

3. What is special about the narrator and how is this looked upon?

4. How does the narrator react to Modou's death?

5. What is the goal of the school the narrator attends?

6. What decision does Ramatoulaye make about her three daughters (the "trio") in light of Aissatou's out-of-wedlock pregnancy?

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

8. How does Daouda ask for Ramatoulaye's hand in marriage and what is her response?

9. How do the narrator and her friends make their lives better?

10. What did Lady Mother-in-Law bring up at the mirasse and with what result?

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