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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 is the relationship between the younger brother and the narrator after high school?
(a) They are separated for the rest of their lives.
(b) They become neighbors in Saigon.
(c) They live far apart but visit often.
(d) They move to France to live together.

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

3. In contrast to what the mother plans, what does the narrator want to be?
(a) Seamstress.
(b) Writer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Mathematician.

4. What does the mother compare her daughter's diamond ring to?
(a) Her mother's wedding ring.
(b) A beautiful crystal.
(c) Her first engagement ring.
(d) A ring she had to pawn for money.

5. How does the narrator describe the body of the lover?
(a) Androgynous.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Masculine.
(d) Deformed.

Short Answer Questions

1. After they return to France, who lives with the mother?

2. What subject was NOT discussed in the houses where the narrator took her meals and spent much time?

3. After the father's death, the mother is in control of the family's finances. She consequently mismanages the money, leaving the family poor. What did the mother buy that resulted in the loss of the family's wealth?

4. Who never had their own dresses?

5. Towards the end of her life, the mother groomed herself for one final professional photograph. What was done to this photograph?

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