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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 2, 3, 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the mother?
(a) Helene.
(b) She is unnamed.
(c) Dô.
(d) Marguerite.

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

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?
(a) Writer.
(b) Mathematician.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Secretary.

4. In the novel, who does the mother favor?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The older brother.
(c) The younger brother.
(d) The lover.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What material is the narrator's dress made of?

2. About how many years older than the narrator is the older brother?

3. What style of man's hat does the narrator wear?

4. Whose wasteful lifestyle contributes to the family's poverty?

5. What nationality is the lover?

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