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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what type of background does Binetou come?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Upper class.
(c) Nobility.
(d) A poor background.

2. What is ironic about Daouda Dieng's marriage proposal?
(a) It is many years too late.
(b) He is already married, so the narrator would be the second wife.
(c) He is recently widowed.
(d) He does not propose marriage, but rather an affair.

3. Who gives the narrator a brand new car?
(a) Aissatou.
(b) Modou.
(c) Lady Mother-in-law.
(d) Mawdo.

4. What has the narrator's daughter Aissatou kept from the narrator?
(a) That she is planning to run away to Europe.
(b) That her boyfriend already has one wife.
(c) That she has quit school.
(d) That she is three months pregnant.

5. How does the narrator feel around Daouda Dieng?
(a) Put down.
(b) Desireable.
(c) As just another woman to take care of a man.
(d) An equal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens whenever the narrator goes to the movies alone?

2. What was the narrator's emotional response to an offer of marriage after Modou's death?

3. Who seems to have romantic intentions for the narrator since Modou left her?

4. Who does the narrator blame for her children's problems?

5. Who are "the trio?"

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