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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator praise of Hélène Lagonelle's?
(a) Her family's fine home.
(b) Her long, flowing hair.
(c) Her body's sexual virtues.
(d) Her grades.

2. Who never had their own dresses?
(a) Hélène Lagonelle.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The wives of the government officials.
(d) The mother.

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

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

5. How does the narrator think the younger brother died?
(a) From a heart attack.
(b) From fear.
(c) From an infectious disease.
(d) By drowning.

Short Answer Questions

1. In segments 5 and 6, as well as other parts of the novel, which characteristics best describe narrator?

2. As French colonists in a predominantly non-Caucasian nation, what does the family enjoy despite their relative poverty?

3. 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?

4. What happened between the older brother and Dô?

5. What river does the ferry travel across that takes the narrator from her home to her school?

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