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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the relationship between the younger brother and the narrator after high school?
(a) They move to France to live together.
(b) They become neighbors in Saigon.
(c) They live far apart but visit often.
(d) They are separated for the rest of their lives.

3. What does the narrator equate the older brother with?
(a) War.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Money.
(d) Strength.

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. What is done to the lover on the outings to the restaurants and nightclubs?
(a) He is not allowed to speak to the narrator.
(b) He is mostly ignored.
(c) He has to stand the whole time.
(d) He is made to sit at a different table.

6. Where do the narrator and the lover first engage in sexual intercourse?
(a) Her home.
(b) Her school.
(c) The ferry.
(d) His home.

7. How does the lover describe his life in Paris, where he was a student?
(a) He was depressed and withdrawn.
(b) He lived in idle indulgence.
(c) He worked hard in his studies.
(d) He worked hard at a job.

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

9. Towards the end of her life, the mother groomed herself for one final professional photograph. What was done to this photograph?
(a) It was never developed properly.
(b) It was thrown out by the narrator.
(c) It was sold by the older brother.
(d) It was retouched to make her look artifical.

10. What would the mother do after she emerged from a depressive episode?
(a) Order more dresses for herself.
(b) Order a general house cleaning.
(c) Entertain friends in her home.
(d) Take the family to restaurants and nightclubs.

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

12. Who actively supports the older brother's behavior?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The mother.
(c) The lover.
(d) The younger brother.

13. What event is happening at the time in which the younger brother dies?
(a) The Russian Revolution.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

14. Who does the narrator feel ruled by?
(a) The mother.
(b) The lover.
(c) The older brother.
(d) The lover's father.

15. In a letter to the narrator after high school, what sport does the younger brother say he has taken up?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Polo.
(c) Field hockey.
(d) Golf.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the mother compare her daughter's diamond ring to?

3. In what year does the younger brother die?

4. What does the lover recall with great affection?

5. What type of people were attracted to the houses the narrator describes in segment 14?

(see the answer keys)

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