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

2. Which does NOT describe Hélène Lagonelle?
(a) Naïve.
(b) Older than the narrator.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Mature.

3. What subject is the narrator less successful in?
(a) Literature.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) French.
(d) English.

4. What happens to the wives of the colonial potentates as they age in the colony?
(a) They slowly grow mad.
(b) They grow closer to their husbands.
(c) They tutor the younger women.
(d) They get wiser with the years.

5. Where do the narrator and the lover first engage in sexual intercourse?
(a) The ferry.
(b) Her home.
(c) His home.
(d) Her school.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how old is the older brother when the mother dies?

2. Chochinchina is today known as what country?

3. The lover fears that the narrator only wants his _______.

4. The major events recalled in the novel about the time the family lived in Chochinchina happen when the narrator is _________ years old.

5. What is the name of the narrator's friend?

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