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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. After the first visit, what does Daouda Dieng promise?
2. How does the narrator feel around Daouda Dieng?
3. Who makes repairs around the narrator's house now that her husband has abandoned her?
4. What kind of clothes do her daughters wear?
5. How does Nabou feel about Mawdo?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Unlike many Senegalese women, the narrator is a working mother, even before her husband left her. Much research has been done on the effect of a two-parent working family on children. What does the research seem to suggest? What are some possible ways to solve the problem of the need for both parents to work outside of the home in the United States? More and more men are becoming stay-at-home fathers while their wives are the primary breadwinners. After researching the dynamics of male/female power structure in Senegal today, do you think this phenomenon is taking place there also? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Ramatoulaye's best friend moves to the United States after her husband married a second wife. Over the past several hundred years, many emigrants have moved to the United States seeking relief from oppressive governments or oppressive cultural mores. Discuss some of the things that would drive you to leave your home country to move to a new country and different culture. If there is nothing that would make you leave your home country, discuss what about your country makes you want to live there for your entire life.
Essay Topic 3
When Ramatoulaye realizes her daughters are smoking and wearing "Western" clothes. Discuss the idea of the "ugly American" and why many countries seem to both be attracted to and repulsed by American (United States) culture, fashions, fads, ideas, etc. Do you believe Americans deserve this contempt from many citizens of other countries? Why or why not.
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