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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 15, 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of courses does is the younger brother enrolled in?
(a) Math courses.
(b) Science courses.
(c) Real Estate courses.
(d) Bookkeeping courses.

2. Later in her life, whose photograph does the narrator see that reminds her of herself as the young woman on the ferry?
(a) A movie star of the day.
(b) Her mother as a young woman.
(c) Her twenty-year-old son.
(d) A friend from her childhood.

3. Who drives a Citroën B12?
(a) The mother.
(b) The lover.
(c) Hélène Lagonelle.
(d) The older brother.

4. What river does the ferry travel across that takes the narrator from her home to her school?
(a) Red River.
(b) Saigon River.
(c) Mekong River.
(d) Tonkin River.

5. What is the name of the family's loyal domestic servant?
(a) Marguerite.
(b) Thị.
(c) Hélène.
(d) Dô.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of stores does the narrator often visit?

2. Who is the primary recipient of the older brother's anger?

3. Who appeared in the premonition that the mother had before the father's death?

4. Who are evident but unequal friends in the novel?

5. Which word best describes the older brother?

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