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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 does the narrator ride on to board the ferry?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A truck.
(c) A car.
(d) A bus.

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

3. What is the name of the family's loyal domestic servant?
(a) Dô.
(b) Marguerite.
(c) Hélène.
(d) Thị.

4. Who asks about the narrator's family's property investments?
(a) The lover.
(b) The bus driver and ferry hands.
(c) The government officials.
(d) Hélène Lagonelle.

5. What does the narrator praise of Hélène Lagonelle's?
(a) Her family's fine home.
(b) Her grades.
(c) Her body's sexual virtues.
(d) Her long, flowing hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does the narrator excel in?

2. Which does NOT describe Hélène Lagonelle?

3. How does the mother die in the novel?

4. What subject is the narrator less successful in?

5. Who dies prior to the novel's narration?

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