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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 narrator ride on to board the ferry?
(a) A truck.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A car.
(d) A bus.

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

3. While living in the French colony of Chochinchina, in what city is the narrator's school located?
(a) Can Tho.
(b) Saigon.
(c) Bien Hoa.
(d) Sadec.

4. How does the mother die in the novel?
(a) Getting hit by a bus.
(b) The older brother murders her.
(c) Drowning on the passage to Paris.
(d) From the same disease as the father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the family's servant seem to function in the family?

2. The narrator has ____ older sibling(s).

3. How does the younger brother die?

4. Who escaped the law of error?

5. What happens to the wives of the colonial potentates as they age in the colony?

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