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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 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.

2. What type of automobile does the lover ride in?
(a) A black limousine.
(b) A taxi.
(c) A bus.
(d) A luxury sedan.

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

4. As French colonists in a predominantly non-Caucasian nation, what does the family enjoy despite their relative poverty?
(a) Fine jewelry.
(b) A chaffeured car.
(c) Beautiful clothes.
(d) Socio-economic power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is the lover?

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

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?

4. Which best describes the body of the narrator?

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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