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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segment 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator mainly dance with at the nightclubs?
(a) The brothers.
(b) Other girl friends.
(c) The mother.
(d) The lover.

2. What is the momentous turning point in the life of the narrator?
(a) Her graduation from school.
(b) The meeting and affair with the lover.
(c) Her return to Paris.
(d) The death of the mother.

3. What nationality is the lover?
(a) French.
(b) Vietnamese.
(c) Chinese.
(d) English.

4. How does the narrator view Hélène Lagonelle?
(a) As a long lost sister.
(b) As an unfortunate foreigner.
(c) As a jealous rival.
(d) As the embodiment of beauty.

5. Where does most of the mother's income go?
(a) To pay for the narrator's schooling.
(b) To buy dresses and jewelry for the mother.
(c) To paying the brother's debt.
(d) To pay the workers on the family's land.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator believe never knew the pleasure of sex?

2. How does the mother feel about the older brother?

3. What does the lover have difficulty doing?

4. Who asks about the narrator's family's property investments?

5. What river does the ferry travel across that takes the narrator from her home to her school?

(see the answer key)

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