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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 2, 3, 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Later in her life, whose photograph does the narrator see that reminds her of herself as the young woman on the ferry?
(a) A friend from her childhood.
(b) Her mother as a young woman.
(c) Her twenty-year-old son.
(d) A movie star of the day.

3. Who dies prior to the novel's narration?
(a) The younger brother only.
(b) The mother, and both the younger and older brothers.
(c) The mother and younger brother only.
(d) The mother only.

4. The major events recalled in the novel about the time the family lived in Chochinchina happen when the narrator is _________ years old.
(a) Fifteen and one half.
(b) Sixteen and one half.
(c) Eighteen and one half.
(d) Seventeen and one half.

5. Who in the novel is both physically and mentally abusive?
(a) The mother.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The older brother.
(d) The yonger brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which best describes the narrator's use of make-up?

2. Where did the narrator find her hat?

3. Who in the novel is especially terrorized and lives their life in a shadow of fear?

4. How does the mother die in the novel?

5. Whose wasteful lifestyle contributes to the family's poverty?

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