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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the mother earn money?
(a) By running French language schools.
(b) By teaching French to students from her home.
(c) By selling her valuable possessions.
(d) Through her property investments.

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

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

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

5. Who is the primary recipient of the older brother's anger?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The mother.
(c) The younger brother.
(d) The lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What material is the narrator's dress made of?

2. What style of man's hat does the narrator wear?

3. In what year does the narrator finish high school?

4. After the father's death, what happens to the family property the mother invests in ?

5. How does the narrator obtain her make-up?

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