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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 helps to awaken the narrator's sexuality?
(a) A play she sees.
(b) Her schooling.
(c) Her new clothing.
(d) The mother.

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

3. What river does the ferry travel across that takes the narrator from her home to her school?
(a) Mekong River.
(b) Tonkin River.
(c) Red River.
(d) Saigon River.

4. In segments 5 and 6, as well as other parts of the novel, which characteristics best describe narrator?
(a) Old and foolish.
(b) Stupid and dependent.
(c) Ugly and brutish.
(d) Smart and independent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes care of the family property?

2. How does the narrator wear dresses?

3. Who dies prior to the novel's narration?

4. What does the mother suffer from throughout the narrator's life?

5. Chochinchina is today known as what country?

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