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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 a test feared by Senegalese women?
(a) The widow(s) have to be branded.
(b) Their sisters-in-law have to take down the new widows' hair.
(c) A test to learn if a woman is pregnant.
(d) A ritual to discover if a woman is a virgin.

2. To where does Aunty Nabou travel?
(a) Diakhao.
(b) Englands.
(c) Kenya.
(d) South Africa.

3. Where did Modou go for a degree?
(a) Britian.
(b) The United States.
(c) South Africa.
(d) France.

4. What does the narrator have to put up with regularly?
(a) Her mother offering advice.
(b) Snakes in the house.
(c) Babysitting her nieces and nephews.
(d) Her sisters-in-law and mother-in-law's frequent intrusions.

5. What had the deceased bought to please his second wife?
(a) A new mercedes benz.
(b) A nice villa.
(c) A diamond necklace.
(d) Two thoroughbred horses for racing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the narrator writing her diary?

3. What did the deceased give Lady Mother-in-Law when he desires to marry Binetou?

4. What is the difference between the men and women during the gathering for the deceased?

5. What do the participants donate to this person's funeral?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Discuss the ritual of taking down the hair.

4. What are the narrator's concerns for some of her children?

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

6. What does the widow have to do after the funeral of her husband? How does she feel about this?

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

8. What is Mawdo's response to Aissatou?

9. What is happening to the narrator's daughter, Aissitou, who is named for the narrator's best friend in the United States.

10. What are two things Modou mentions in his correspondence to the narrator?

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