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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 5, 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) Secretary.
(d) Teacher.

4. What style of man's hat does the narrator wear?
(a) Fedora.
(b) Derby.
(c) Cowboy.
(d) Top.

5. After the father's death, the mother is in control of the family's finances. She consequently mismanages the money, leaving the family poor. What did the mother buy that resulted in the loss of the family's wealth?
(a) Property.
(b) Furniture.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Later in her life, whose photograph does the narrator see that reminds her of herself as the young woman on the ferry?

2. How does the family's servant seem to function in the family?

3. How old was the narrator when she cut her hair for the first time?

4. The family in the story consists of white citizens residing in the colony of Chochinchina. Where is the family originally from?

5. What happened between the older brother and Dô?

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