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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 7, 8, 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because of her early family life, what does the narrator believe to be true about herself?
(a) She can become anything anyone wants her to be.
(b) She can be the best kind of wife and mother.
(c) She will never be able to trust anyone.
(d) She will never be able to love anyone.

2. How does the mother die in the novel?
(a) Getting hit by a bus.
(b) The older brother murders her.
(c) Drowning on the passage to Paris.
(d) From the same disease as the father.

3. Who are evident but unequal friends in the novel?
(a) The mother and Dô.
(b) Dô and the older brother.
(c) The lover and Dô.
(d) Hélène Lagonelle and the lover.

4. What does the mother equate the narrator's awakening sexuality with?
(a) Being a teenager.
(b) Bad influences.
(c) Money.
(d) Poverty.

5. What contributed to the narrator's ravaged face?
(a) A fight with the older brother.
(b) An car accident.
(c) Drinking heavily.
(d) Smoking heavily.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which item is NOT a part of the ensemble worn by the narrator?

3. Who is a competent tailor?

4. In segments 5 and 6, as well as other parts of the novel, which characteristics best describe narrator?

5. What nationality is the lover?

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