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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator wear dresses?
(a) Backwards.
(b) As if they were sacks.
(c) Very tight to show off her body.
(d) A little loose but fitted.

2. How does the mother earn money?
(a) By selling her valuable possessions.
(b) Through her property investments.
(c) By teaching French to students from her home.
(d) By running French language schools.

3. About how old is the narrator when she last sees the property?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Fifteen.

4. During the scene on the ferry, why does the narrator go to stand by the railing?
(a) She wants to see the water.
(b) She is waiting for someone.
(c) She is bored.
(d) She is seasick.

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

6. How does the narrator obtain her make-up?
(a) She borrows it from her mother.
(b) She gets it from Hélène Lagonelle.
(c) She gets it from Dô.
(d) She steals it from a store.

7. Who asks about the narrator's family's property investments?
(a) The bus driver and ferry hands.
(b) The lover.
(c) Hélène Lagonelle.
(d) The government officials.

8. Who never had their own dresses?
(a) The wives of the government officials.
(b) Hélène Lagonelle.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The mother.

9. The narrator has ____ older sibling(s).
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

10. What nationality is the lover?
(a) French.
(b) Vietnamese.
(c) English.
(d) Chinese.

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

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

13. Who escaped the law of error?
(a) The mother.
(b) Hélène Lagonelle.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Dô.

14. The narrator remembers a photograph of her mother in segment 4. When was the photograph taken?
(a) A decade before the ferry ride.
(b) After the younger brother's death.
(c) Right before the mother's death.
(d) A decade after the ferry ride.

15. Which best describes the narrator's use of make-up?
(a) She wears only lipstick.
(b) She wears heavy make-up.
(c) She wears light make-up.
(d) She doesn't wear make-up.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does most of the mother's income go?

3. How old was the narrator when she cut her hair for the first time?

4. Who is a competent tailor?

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

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