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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 become neighbors in Saigon.
(b) They live far apart but visit often.
(c) They are separated for the rest of their lives.
(d) They move to France to live together.

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

3. Who in the novel is especially terrorized and lives their life in a shadow of fear?
(a) The mother.
(b) The younger brother.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Dô.

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

5. As a young woman, the narrator was _________.
(a) Ugly.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Funny.

Short Answer Questions

1. In segment 16, what does the narrator compare her life to?

2. About how many years older than the narrator is the older brother?

3. What happened between the older brother and Dô?

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

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

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