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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. Although seemingly impossible, according to society at the time, what could the wives of the colonial potentates have done to keep their husbands from straying?
(a) Put spells on them.
(b) Grow younger.
(c) Retained their beauty.
(d) Locked their husbands up at home.

2. What does the mother equate the narrator's awakening sexuality with?
(a) Being a teenager.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Bad influences.
(d) Money.

3. Around what time is the novel narrated?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1989.

4. Who takes care of the family property?
(a) Nomadic farmers.
(b) The family servants.
(c) Paid farmhands.
(d) The family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Dô stay with the mother?

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

3. Who appeared in the premonition that the mother had before the father's death?

4. Later in life, what does the narrator write many books about?

5. Whose wasteful lifestyle contributes to the family's poverty?

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