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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 7, 8, 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In contrast to what the mother plans, what does the narrator want to be?
(a) Writer.
(b) Mathematician.
(c) Seamstress.
(d) Teacher.

3. Who in the novel is both physically and mentally abusive?
(a) The yonger brother.
(b) The mother.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The older brother.

4. Where does most of the mother's income go?
(a) To buy dresses and jewelry for the mother.
(b) To pay for the narrator's schooling.
(c) To pay the workers on the family's land.
(d) To paying the brother's debt.

5. Where did the family go after the father's death?
(a) They remained in Chochinchina.
(b) They returned to Paris.
(c) They went to China.
(d) They went to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator remembers a photograph of her mother in segment 4. When was the photograph taken?

2. What nationality is the lover?

3. How does the mother die in the novel?

4. What material is the narrator's dress made of?

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

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