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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 river does the ferry travel across that takes the narrator from her home to her school?
(a) Saigon River.
(b) Red River.
(c) Mekong River.
(d) Tonkin River.

2. How does the narrator obtain her make-up?
(a) She steals it from a store.
(b) She gets it from Hélène Lagonelle.
(c) She borrows it from her mother.
(d) She gets it from Dô.

3. Later in her life, whose photograph does the narrator see that reminds her of herself as the young woman on the ferry?
(a) Her mother as a young woman.
(b) A movie star of the day.
(c) Her twenty-year-old son.
(d) A friend from her childhood.

4. The narrator has ____ older sibling(s).
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

5. What material is the narrator's dress made of?
(a) Nylon.
(b) Silk.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Satin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the family go after the father's death?

2. How does the mother die in the novel?

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

4. Between which years do most of the action referred to in the novel take place?

5. In the beginning of the story, the narrator appears old and "ravaged." During what age period is it noted that her most rapid aging took place?

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