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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segment 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about her situation as a "kept woman"?
(a) She wants to tell her mother.
(b) She finds it strange.
(c) She finds it comforting.
(d) She feels ashamed.

2. In segments 5 and 6, as well as other parts of the novel, which characteristics best describe narrator?
(a) Smart and independent.
(b) Stupid and dependent.
(c) Ugly and brutish.
(d) Old and foolish.

3. What does the narrator tell the lover are inseparable?
(a) The narrator and the lover.
(b) His money and her desire.
(c) Hélène Lagonelle and the narrator.
(d) His love and her desire.

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

5. What is the name of the family's loyal domestic servant?
(a) Marguerite.
(b) Hélène.
(c) Thị.
(d) Dô.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator praise of Hélène Lagonelle's?

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

3. In segment 14, what does the narrator begin to flaunt while she is still in school?

4. What would the mother do after she emerged from a depressive episode?

5. What two new characters do we meet in segment 14?

(see the answer key)

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