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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 field is Modou's degree?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Law.
(d) Mathematics.

2. Why does the narrator believe it is useless to try to revive the person in question 5?
(a) Because this hospital has no electric paddles.
(b) Because death is an act of fate.
(c) Because it is this person's second heart attack this year.
(d) Because that person should die for sins commited.

3. When did the narrator realize that Modou was the man for her for life?
(a) When he asked her to marry him.
(b) When he held their first child in his arms.
(c) After he dies.
(d) During their first dance.

4. To whom do the wives give money?
(a) No one; they keep it all for themselves.
(b) Their children.
(c) The government in the form of taxes.
(d) Their in-laws.

5. How do many of the young people consider traditional crafts?
(a) As a necessary evil.
(b) As an honorable profession.
(c) As beneath them.
(d) As not worth learning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Aissatou marry?

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

3. Why is the narrator upset about the donations from the people?

4. What keeps Mawdo busy as a physician?

5. Who did Modou support politically?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator feel about Tamsir's (Modou's brother) offer of marriage to take place after the mourning period? Why does Tamsir make this offer of marriage?

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

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

5. What are some things Daouda does when he visits the narrator that implies his future offer of marriage?

6. How does the narrator react to the news and what does she think?

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

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

9. Describe the process of "making donations." How does the narrator feel about this process?

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

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