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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is a competent tailor?
(a) Dô.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The mother.
(d) Hélène Lagonelle.

2. As French colonists in a predominantly non-Caucasian nation, what does the family enjoy despite their relative poverty?
(a) Socio-economic power.
(b) Beautiful clothes.
(c) A chaffeured car.
(d) Fine jewelry.

3. What material is the narrator's dress made of?
(a) Nylon.
(b) Silk.
(c) Satin.
(d) Cotton.

4. What subject does the narrator excel in?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Literature.
(d) French.

5. In the novel, who does the mother favor?
(a) The younger brother.
(b) The older brother.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The lover.

6. The lover comments that it is rare to see a white girl ________.
(a) On a native bus.
(b) In Chochinchina.
(c) On a ferry.
(d) In a man's hat.

7. Who watches out for the narrator?
(a) The older brother.
(b) The bus driver and ferry hands.
(c) Hélène Lagonelle.
(d) The younger brother.

8. Who takes care of the family property?
(a) The family servants.
(b) Nomadic farmers.
(c) The family.
(d) Paid farmhands.

9. What river does the ferry travel across that takes the narrator from her home to her school?
(a) Tonkin River.
(b) Saigon River.
(c) Red River.
(d) Mekong River.

10. Who dies prior to the novel's narration?
(a) The mother, and both the younger and older brothers.
(b) The mother only.
(c) The younger brother only.
(d) The mother and younger brother only.

11. Where does most of the mother's income go?
(a) To pay the workers on the family's land.
(b) To paying the brother's debt.
(c) To pay for the narrator's schooling.
(d) To buy dresses and jewelry for the mother.

12. Why does the older brother leave the colony to return to France?
(a) To meet his future wife.
(b) To obtain a technical education.
(c) Because he fights too much with his siblings.
(d) Because he is ill.

13. What is Nouvelle Ecole Française?
(a) A French language school run by the mother.
(b) A store visited by the narrator.
(c) A popular theater in Chochinchina.
(d) A favorite phrase of the narrator.

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

15. Who travels between France and Chochinchina about every year or so?
(a) The mother.
(b) The older brother.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which best describes the body of the narrator?

2. Whose wasteful lifestyle contributes to the family's poverty?

3. Where did the family go after the father's death?

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

5. What does the mother suffer from throughout the narrator's life?

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