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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 5, 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose wasteful lifestyle contributes to the family's poverty?
(a) The older brother.
(b) The mother.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The father.

2. What is the name of the narrator's friend?
(a) Hélène Lagonelle.
(b) Harriet Lancaster.
(c) Harriet Lagonelle.
(d) Hélène Lancaster.

3. What contributed to the narrator's ravaged face?
(a) Smoking heavily.
(b) An car accident.
(c) Drinking heavily.
(d) A fight with the older brother.

4. Around what time is the novel narrated?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1983.

5. Who in the novel is especially terrorized and lives their life in a shadow of fear?
(a) The mother.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The younger brother.
(d) Dô.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is the lover?

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

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

4. At what age does the narrator leave Chochinchina for Paris?

5. How long does Dô stay with the mother?

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