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

2. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?
(a) What she learns in school.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) Her great-Aunt who did the same.
(d) Because her future husband is blackmailing her.

3. Why does Modou gain many promotions in his job?
(a) His charisma and devotion to the workers' plight.
(b) He does not accept a salary for his work.
(c) He bribes those in authority above him.
(d) His father-in-law is in charge where he works.

4. In Modou's letters to the narrator while getting his degree, for what did he say he longed?
(a) For the narrator's presence and black complexion.
(b) A home-cooked meal.
(c) His family and friends.
(d) Enough money to come home and visit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said out loud during the mourning rituals?

2. How many years has the narrator been married to the deceased?

3. What does the deceased do when he meets Binetou?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Modou do upon returning from France?

2. What is the first of Modou's secrets that is revealed?

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

4. What is a possible reason the narrator's first name is revealed in chapter 19?

5. Why do you think the narrator still puts up with her in-laws who irritate her and who continue to visit despite the fact that Modou is no longer living with the narrator?

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

7. What is happening politically in these three chapters?

8. How does the narrator feel about the problems with Aissatou?

9. What tradition surrounding her husband's death does the narrator dislike and why?

10. Describe the narrator's living situation.

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