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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. Who are evident but unequal friends in the novel?
(a) Hélène Lagonelle and the lover.
(b) The lover and Dô.
(c) Dô and the older brother.
(d) The mother and Dô.

2. Why does the older brother leave the colony to return to France?
(a) Because he fights too much with his siblings.
(b) To obtain a technical education.
(c) To meet his future wife.
(d) Because he is ill.

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

4. Who does the narrator believe never knew the pleasure of sex?
(a) The mother.
(b) The older brother.
(c) Dô.
(d) The father.

5. At what age does the narrator leave Chochinchina for Paris?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Eighteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the mother die in the novel?

2. How does the narrator describe the body of the lover?

3. How does the family's servant seem to function in the family?

4. The family in the story consists of white citizens residing in the colony of Chochinchina. Where is the family originally from?

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

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