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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which best describes the body of the narrator?
(a) Chubby.
(b) Mature and full.
(c) Short and stalky.
(d) Youthful and thin.

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

3. Which does NOT describe Hélène Lagonelle?
(a) Older than the narrator.
(b) Mature.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Naïve.

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

5. 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 seasick.
(d) She is bored.

6. Who appeared in the premonition that the mother had before the father's death?
(a) The narrator's grandfather.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The narrator's grandmother.

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

8. Although seemingly impossible, according to society at the time, what could the wives of the colonial potentates have done to keep their husbands from straying?
(a) Retained their beauty.
(b) Locked their husbands up at home.
(c) Put spells on them.
(d) Grow younger.

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

10. What type of automobile does the lover ride in?
(a) A luxury sedan.
(b) A black limousine.
(c) A bus.
(d) A taxi.

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

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

13. Who are evident but unequal friends in the novel?
(a) The lover and Dô.
(b) Hélène Lagonelle and the lover.
(c) Dô and the older brother.
(d) The mother and Dô.

14. Between which years do most of the action referred to in the novel take place?
(a) 1919-1920.
(b) 1929-1930.
(c) 1928-1929.
(d) 1935-1936.

15. About how many years older than the narrator is the older brother?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which item is NOT a part of the ensemble worn by the narrator?

2. After the father's death, what happens to the family property the mother invests in ?

3. What contributed to the narrator's ravaged face?

4. Who dies prior to the novel's narration?

5. In the beginning of the story, the narrator appears old and "ravaged." During what age period is it noted that her most rapid aging took place?

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