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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator tell the lover are inseparable?
(a) His money and her desire.
(b) The narrator and the lover.
(c) Hélène Lagonelle and the narrator.
(d) His love and her desire.

3. Who often weeps?
(a) Hélène Lagonelle.
(b) The lover.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The lover's father.

4. At the end of their relationship, what is true about the lover?
(a) His desire for the narrator has not faded.
(b) His money has run out.
(c) He regrets the entire relationship.
(d) His desire for the narrator is non-existent.

5. Who decided that the narrator's family should move to France?
(a) The older brother.
(b) The lover's father.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The mother.

6. What does the lover fear will happen should the relationship become public?
(a) He will be sent back to China.
(b) He will be forced to marry the narrator.
(c) He will lose his inheritance.
(d) He will be humiliated and disgraced.

7. Who is the biggest influence on the why the relationship between the narrator and the lover is ending?
(a) The lover.
(b) The lover's father.
(c) The mother.
(d) The narrator.

8. What does the mother compare her daughter's diamond ring to?
(a) Her first engagement ring.
(b) A ring she had to pawn for money.
(c) A beautiful crystal.
(d) Her mother's wedding ring.

9. Who does the narrator believe never knew the pleasure of sex?
(a) The older brother.
(b) Dô.
(c) The father.
(d) The mother.

10. During their relationship, the couple discusses many subjects. Which of the following subjects do they NOT discuss?
(a) Money.
(b) Love.
(c) Politics.
(d) Self.

11. In segment 16, what does the narrator compare her life to?
(a) A movie.
(b) A raging river.
(c) A series of staged photographs.
(d) A tragic play.

12. What does the lover have difficulty doing?
(a) Entertaining the narrator.
(b) Paying attention to the narrator.
(c) Expressing his feelings.
(d) Driving a car.

13. How does the narrator feel about her situation as a "kept woman"?
(a) She finds it comforting.
(b) She finds it strange.
(c) She wants to tell her mother.
(d) She feels ashamed.

14. How many letters does the younger brother write to his sister during the period after high school?
(a) One.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty or more.

15. What group did the narrator join after the war?
(a) The French Communist Party.
(b) The Young Politicians.
(c) The French Socialist Party.
(d) The Literary Guild.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator see imperfection in the lover?

2. How does the lover describe his life in Paris, where he was a student?

3. What does Hélène Lagonelle talk often of during her conversations with the narrator?

4. In segment 14, what does the narrator begin to flaunt while she is still in school?

5. The mother's actions towards the girl's situation include all of the following except:

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