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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 does the mother suffer from throughout the narrator's life?
(a) Depression.
(b) Rashes.
(c) Nausea.
(d) Headaches.

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

3. What subject does the narrator excel in?
(a) French.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Literature.

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

5. Which best describes the narrator's use of make-up?
(a) She wears heavy make-up.
(b) She doesn't wear make-up.
(c) She wears only lipstick.
(d) She wears light make-up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mother equate the narrator's awakening sexuality with?

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

3. 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?

4. Who travels between France and Chochinchina about every year or so?

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

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