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

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

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

4. Between which years do most of the action referred to in the novel take place?
(a) 1928-1929.
(b) 1919-1920.
(c) 1935-1936.
(d) 1929-1930.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the scene on the ferry, why does the narrator go to stand by the railing?

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

3. How does the narrator think the younger brother died?

4. What does the mother suffer from throughout the narrator's life?

5. The major events recalled in the novel about the time the family lived in Chochinchina happen when the narrator is _________ years old.

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