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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 10, 11, 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the younger brother die?
(a) From a heart attack.
(b) From an infectious disease.
(c) By drowning.
(d) By being hit by a car.

2. After the father's death, what happens to the family property the mother invests in ?
(a) It isn't taken care of properly and falls into decay.
(b) It is sold to a nearby village who builds a school on it.
(c) The lands thrive and the family makes money off of it.
(d) Villagers set fire to it, and it becomes a wasteland.

3. Although seemingly impossible, according to society at the time, what could the wives of the colonial potentates have done to keep their husbands from straying?
(a) Put spells on them.
(b) Grow younger.
(c) Locked their husbands up at home.
(d) Retained their beauty.

4. Later in life, what does the narrator write many books about?
(a) China.
(b) Colonial women.
(c) Sex.
(d) The family's situation.

5. Why does the older brother leave the colony to return to France?
(a) To meet his future wife.
(b) Because he is ill.
(c) Because he fights too much with his siblings.
(d) To obtain a technical education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which does NOT describe Hélène Lagonelle?

2. The major events recalled in the novel about the time the family lived in Chochinchina happen when the narrator is _________ years old.

3. What material is the narrator's dress made of?

4. Who are evident but unequal friends in the novel?

5. In the novel, who does the mother favor?

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