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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who often joins the lover and the narrator at expensive restaurants and nightclubs?
(a) The lover's father.
(b) Dô.
(c) Hélène Lagonelle.
(d) The narrator's family.

2. What does the narrator realize about the lover even upon the first meeting?
(a) He is an intimidating person.
(b) He wants to marry her.
(c) He is afraid of her and she has power over him.
(d) He has no real interest in her.

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

4. What does the narrator tell the lover are inseparable?
(a) His money and her desire.
(b) Hélène Lagonelle and the narrator.
(c) His love and her desire.
(d) The narrator and the lover.

5. Who are evident but unequal friends in the novel?
(a) Hélène Lagonelle and the lover.
(b) The mother and Dô.
(c) Dô and the older brother.
(d) The lover and Dô.

Short Answer Questions

1. In contrast to what the mother plans, what does the narrator want to be?

2. Who dies prior to the novel's narration?

3. Who in the novel is both physically and mentally abusive?

4. As French colonists in a predominantly non-Caucasian nation, what does the family enjoy despite their relative poverty?

5. What does the narrator describe sex as being related to?

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