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

2. The narrator remembers a photograph of her mother in segment 4. When was the photograph taken?
(a) After the younger brother's death.
(b) A decade after the ferry ride.
(c) A decade before the ferry ride.
(d) Right before the mother's death.

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

4. What type of automobile does the lover ride in?
(a) A taxi.
(b) A black limousine.
(c) A bus.
(d) A luxury sedan.

5. Which item is NOT a part of the ensemble worn by the narrator?
(a) A man's hat.
(b) Lace gloves.
(c) A man's belt.
(d) Gold lamé shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the younger brother die?

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

3. The narrator has ____ older sibling(s).

4. What type of clothes does the lover wear?

5. What becomes enshrined in the ravaged face of the narrator?

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