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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 reasons does the narrator give for Modou's taking a second wife?
(a) For highter social status.
(b) For money, since the second wife came from a wealthy family.
(c) She doesn't have any idea.
(d) Either love or madness.

2. How long does the narrator have to stay indoors after the funeral?
(a) Four months and ten days.
(b) Three days.
(c) She does not have to stay indoors.
(d) As long as it takes for her hair to grow long again.

3. What profession does Aunty Nabou insist her niece take up?
(a) Weaving.
(b) Nursing.
(c) Veternarian.
(d) Midwifery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the occupation of Aissatou's father?

2. What was the narrator's first impression of her future husband?

3. What is one secret revealed about the deceased?

4. How many sons does Aunty Nabou have?

5. What gives the narrator the ability to buck her family and marry who she wishes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator persist in thinking about Modou's abandonment and what does Aissatou say about it?

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

3. How is Daouda Dieng significant to the narrator?

4. Describe the narrator's living situation.

5. What does the narrator write in her diary as a young woman and remembers in this chapter?

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

7. How does the family feel about Ibrahima?

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

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

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

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