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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 mother obsessed with in regards to the narrator?
(a) Having her escape poverty.
(b) Sending her to France.
(c) Her being a great writer.
(d) Having her marry the lover.

2. What is the relationship between the lover and the narrator based on?
(a) Love.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Sexual desire.
(d) Admiration.

3. About how old is the older brother when the mother dies?
(a) 35.
(b) 40.
(c) 45.
(d) 50.

4. 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?
(a) Furniture.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) Property.

5. Where did the family go after the father's death?
(a) They returned to Paris.
(b) They went to China.
(c) They went to America.
(d) They remained in Chochinchina.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What would the mother do after she emerged from a depressive episode?

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

5. Between which years do most of the action referred to in the novel take place?

(see the answer key)

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