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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segment 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the novel, who does the mother favor?
(a) The younger brother.
(b) The lover.
(c) The older brother.
(d) The narrator.

2. What does the narrator describe sex as being related to?
(a) Death.
(b) Love.
(c) Water.
(d) Life.

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

4. The narrator has ____ older sibling(s).
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What helps to awaken the narrator's sexuality?

2. Who is a competent tailor?

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

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

5. Around what time is the novel narrated?

(see the answer key)

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