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

2. What contributed to the narrator's ravaged face?
(a) Drinking heavily.
(b) An car accident.
(c) A fight with the older brother.
(d) Smoking heavily.

3. The major events recalled in the novel about the time the family lived in Chochinchina happen when the narrator is _________ years old.
(a) Sixteen and one half.
(b) Eighteen and one half.
(c) Fifteen and one half.
(d) Seventeen and one half.

4. Who travels between France and Chochinchina about every year or so?
(a) The mother.
(b) The older brother.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The lover.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator think the younger brother died?

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

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

4. In contrast to what the mother plans, what does the narrator want to be?

5. What type of clothes does the lover wear?

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