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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 narrator's friend?
(a) Hélène Lancaster.
(b) Harriet Lancaster.
(c) Harriet Lagonelle.
(d) Hélène Lagonelle.

2. At what age does the narrator leave Chochinchina for Paris?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Eighteen.

3. How old was the narrator when she cut her hair for the first time?
(a) Twenty-three.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Nineteen and a half.
(d) Fifteen and a half.

4. How does the narrator wear dresses?
(a) A little loose but fitted.
(b) As if they were sacks.
(c) Very tight to show off her body.
(d) Backwards.

5. After they return to France, who lives with the mother?
(a) The older brother.
(b) Dô.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The younger brother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are evident but unequal friends in the novel?

3. Who in the novel is especially terrorized and lives their life in a shadow of fear?

4. Who takes care of the family property?

5. What does the narrator consider takes a personal toll on women?

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