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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the narrator find her hat?
(a) Her friend's suitcase.
(b) A boutique.
(c) Her mother's closet.
(d) A second-hand store.

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

3. What subject does the narrator excel in?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Literature.
(d) French.

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

5. The lover comments that it is rare to see a white girl ________.
(a) In Chochinchina.
(b) In a man's hat.
(c) On a native bus.
(d) On a ferry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a competent tailor?

2. How does the mother die in the novel?

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

4. What does the narrator ride on to board the ferry?

5. At what age does the narrator leave Chochinchina for Paris?

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