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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 becomes enshrined in the ravaged face of the narrator?
(a) Hatred of the mother.
(b) Fear of the older brother.
(c) Regret over the lover.
(d) Envy of her friend's wealth.

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

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

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

5. The major events recalled in the novel about the time the family lived in Chochinchina happen when the narrator is _________ years old.
(a) Eighteen and one half.
(b) Seventeen and one half.
(c) Fifteen and one half.
(d) Sixteen and one half.

Short Answer Questions

1. Around what time is the novel narrated?

2. Where did the narrator find her hat?

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

4. What nationality is the lover?

5. How does the narrator wear dresses?

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