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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes the older brother?
(a) Harmless.
(b) Annoying.
(c) Shy.
(d) Mean-spirited.

2. In segment 14, who is an American woman from Boston that runs a house in Paris?
(a) Jean Thomas.
(b) Marie-Claude Carpenter.
(c) Betty Fernandez.
(d) Harriet Lagonelle.

3. During conversation, the lover tells the narrator he knows someone that she knows. Who is it?
(a) The younger brother.
(b) Dô.
(c) Hélène Lagonelle.
(d) The older brother.

4. How many letters does the younger brother write to his sister during the period after high school?
(a) Ten.
(b) One.
(c) Twenty or more.
(d) Five.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In segments 5 and 6, as well as other parts of the novel, which characteristics best describe narrator?

3. About how old is the narrator when she last sees the property?

4. Who often joins the lover and the narrator at expensive restaurants and nightclubs?

5. What did the mother often do with the family?

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