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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Later in life, what does the narrator write many books about?
(a) China.
(b) Sex.
(c) Colonial women.
(d) The family's situation.

2. How does the narrator obtain her make-up?
(a) She gets it from Hélène Lagonelle.
(b) She steals it from a store.
(c) She gets it from Dô.
(d) She borrows it from her mother.

3. Who often weeps?
(a) Hélène Lagonelle.
(b) The lover.
(c) The lover's father.
(d) The narrator.

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

5. Who travels between France and Chochinchina about every year or so?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The lover.
(c) The older brother.
(d) The mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks about the narrator's family's property investments?

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

3. Who demanded that the relationship between the narrator and the lover end?

4. What does the narrator realize about the lover even upon the first meeting?

5. Which word best describes the older brother?

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