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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 10, 11, 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mother obsessed with in regards to the narrator?
(a) Her being a great writer.
(b) Sending her to France.
(c) Having her escape poverty.
(d) Having her marry the lover.

2. How long does Dô stay with the mother?
(a) Until the mother's death.
(b) Until the family leaves for France.
(c) Until the narrator's affair.
(d) Until Dô's death.

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

4. Who asks about the narrator's family's property investments?
(a) The lover.
(b) Hélène Lagonelle.
(c) The bus driver and ferry hands.
(d) The government officials.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who travels between France and Chochinchina about every year or so?

2. What type of courses does is the younger brother enrolled in?

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

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

5. How long does the relationship between the lover and the narrator last?

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