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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 does the narrator praise of Hélène Lagonelle's?
(a) Her body's sexual virtues.
(b) Her long, flowing hair.
(c) Her family's fine home.
(d) Her grades.

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

4. What helps to awaken the narrator's sexuality?
(a) A play she sees.
(b) Her new clothing.
(c) The mother.
(d) Her schooling.

5. How many husbands has the mother had?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the older brother leave the colony to return to France?

2. According to the narrator, what showed things as they really were?

3. In which city does the family reside while living in Chochichina?

4. Where had the father been appointed to a new job before his death?

5. Later in life, what does the narrator write many books about?

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