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

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

3. What does the narrator wonder about those who come to acknowledge the deceased person?
(a) If she might find a man to marry among them.
(b) If any were an enemy of the deceased.
(c) Whose grief is genuine.
(d) How much each person will donate.

4. What do the participants donate to this person's funeral?
(a) Land for the widows to live on.
(b) Forty head of sheep.
(c) A slave to be sacrificed on the funeral pyre.
(d) Money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daba produce when Lady Mother-in-Law wants the monthly salary continued?

2. Why do others disapprove of Aissatou's marriage?

3. How does the narrator feel about Modou taking a second wife?

4. Who does Aissatou marry?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Mawdo Bw's attitude towards his marriage and father-in-law?

3. Describe the wake scene for Modou.

4. What is the response to the taking down of the hair by each wife?

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

6. Why does the narrator rush to the hospital and what does she find?

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

8. How is Daouda Dieng significant to the narrator?

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

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

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