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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. Where did the family go after the father's death?
(a) They returned to Paris.
(b) They went to America.
(c) They went to China.
(d) They remained in Chochinchina.

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

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

4. In the novel, the mother is very concerned with the studies of her children and even attempts to plan the narrator's future. What does the mother decide that she wants the narrator to be?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Mathematician.
(c) Writer.
(d) Secretary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator get her dresses?

2. How does the younger brother die?

3. What does the mother equate the narrator's awakening sexuality with?

4. Who in the novel is both physically and mentally abusive?

5. Because of her early family life, what does the narrator believe to be true about herself?

(see the answer key)

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