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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the mother often do with the family?
(a) She assembled them for professional photography sessions.
(b) She had their fortunes read by a local psychic.
(c) She took them to see plays at the local theater.
(d) She had their portraits drawn by a professional artist.

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

3. In whose presence does the narrator find the lover discovered and undesirable?
(a) The mother.
(b) The lover's father.
(c) The younger brother.
(d) The older brother.

4. What two new characters do we meet in segment 14?
(a) Betty Fernandez and Hélène Lagonelle.
(b) Harriet Lagonelle and Marie-Claude Carpenter.
(c) Betty Carpenter and Marie-Claude Fernandez.
(d) Marie-Claude Carpenter and Betty Fernandez.

5. How old is the lover when the relationship with the narrator begins?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Twenty-seven.
(d) Twenty-nine.

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

7. Who demanded that the relationship between the narrator and the lover end?
(a) The older brother.
(b) A teacher.
(c) The mother.
(d) The lover's father.

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

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

10. How does the narrator describe the body of the lover?
(a) Masculine.
(b) Androgynous.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Deformed.

11. What does the mother do during a conversation between the mother and daughter where the mother finally acknowledges her daughter's behavior?
(a) She throws the daughter out of the house.
(b) She falls asleep.
(c) She commends the daughter's behavior.
(d) She strikes the daughter.

12. The mother's actions towards the girl's situation include all of the following except:
(a) The mother weeps.
(b) The mother laughs about her daughter's excesses.
(c) The mother defends her daughter.
(d) The mother throws her daughter out of the house.

13. What does the narrator describe sex as being related to?
(a) Water.
(b) Love.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

14. What is the momentous turning point in the life of the narrator?
(a) Her graduation from school.
(b) The meeting and affair with the lover.
(c) The death of the mother.
(d) Her return to Paris.

15. Who does the narrator mainly dance with at the nightclubs?
(a) The brothers.
(b) Other girl friends.
(c) The lover.
(d) The mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to the narrator over the course of the relationship?

2. At the end of their relationship, what is true about the lover?

3. What is done to the lover on the outings to the restaurants and nightclubs?

4. How does the narrator feel about her situation as a "kept woman"?

5. According to the narrator, what showed things as they really were?

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