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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who uses the money that the narrator has access to through her relationship?
(a) The narrator and the mother.
(b) The narrator only.
(c) The entire family.
(d) The narrator and the older brother.

2. How does the mother die in the novel?
(a) Getting hit by a bus.
(b) From the same disease as the father.
(c) The older brother murders her.
(d) Drowning on the passage to Paris.

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

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

5. How does the narrator think the younger brother died?
(a) From a heart attack.
(b) From an infectious disease.
(c) From fear.
(d) By drowning.

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

7. How does the narrator view Hélène Lagonelle?
(a) As a long lost sister.
(b) As the embodiment of beauty.
(c) As an unfortunate foreigner.
(d) As a jealous rival.

8. What is the name of the mother?
(a) Marguerite.
(b) She is unnamed.
(c) Dô.
(d) Helene.

9. The major events recalled in the novel about the time the family lived in Chochinchina happen when the narrator is _________ years old.
(a) Fifteen and one half.
(b) Eighteen and one half.
(c) Sixteen and one half.
(d) Seventeen and one half.

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

11. The family in the story consists of white citizens residing in the colony of Chochinchina. Where is the family originally from?
(a) America.
(b) Germany.
(c) England.
(d) France.

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

13. Which item is NOT a part of the ensemble worn by the narrator?
(a) A man's hat.
(b) Lace gloves.
(c) A man's belt.
(d) Gold lamé shoes.

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

15. In the novel, the mother is very concerned with the studies of her children and even attempts to plan the narrator's future. What does the mother decide that she wants the narrator to be?
(a) Writer.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Mathematician.
(d) Teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helps to awaken the narrator's sexuality?

2. What style of man's hat does the narrator wear?

3. Who escaped the law of error?

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

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

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