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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. How does the narrator obtain her make-up?
(a) She gets it from Dô.
(b) She gets it from Hélène Lagonelle.
(c) She steals it from a store.
(d) She borrows it from her mother.

2. Who never had their own dresses?
(a) The wives of the government officials.
(b) Hélène Lagonelle.
(c) The mother.
(d) The narrator.

3. Later in life, what does the narrator write many books about?
(a) Colonial women.
(b) China.
(c) The family's situation.
(d) Sex.

4. As a young woman, the narrator was _________.
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Funny.
(d) Quiet.

5. What type of clothes does the lover wear?
(a) Chinese.
(b) European.
(c) Vietnamese.
(d) American.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What helps to awaken the narrator's sexuality?

3. What happens to the wives of the colonial potentates as they age in the colony?

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

5. What nationality is the lover?

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