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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 15, 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of people were attracted to the houses the narrator describes in segment 14?
(a) Beggars.
(b) Young people.
(c) Foreigners.
(d) Note-worthy people.

2. While living in the French colony of Chochinchina, in what city is the narrator's school located?
(a) Bien Hoa.
(b) Can Tho.
(c) Sadec.
(d) Saigon.

3. The narrator remembers a photograph of her mother in segment 4. When was the photograph taken?
(a) After the younger brother's death.
(b) Right before the mother's death.
(c) A decade after the ferry ride.
(d) A decade before the ferry ride.

4. How does the relationship between Hélène Lagonelle and the narrator end?
(a) Hélène Lagonelle leaves school without explanation.
(b) The narrator leaves for France.
(c) They have a fight and stop talking.
(d) Hélène Lagonelle marries the lover.

5. What river does the ferry travel across that takes the narrator from her home to her school?
(a) Tonkin River.
(b) Saigon River.
(c) Red River.
(d) Mekong River.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the mother earn money?

2. What is the name of the mother?

3. Who often joins the lover and the narrator at expensive restaurants and nightclubs?

4. Where does the narrator get her dresses?

5. How did the lover end up back in Chochinchina?

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