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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who takes care of the family property?
(a) Paid farmhands.
(b) Nomadic farmers.
(c) The family servants.
(d) The family.
2. Later in her life, whose photograph does the narrator see that reminds her of herself as the young woman on the ferry?
(a) A movie star of the day.
(b) A friend from her childhood.
(c) Her twenty-year-old son.
(d) Her mother as a young woman.
3. At what age did the narrator start receiving sexual attention from men?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifteen.
4. Which best describes the body of the narrator?
(a) Mature and full.
(b) Chubby.
(c) Youthful and thin.
(d) Short and stalky.
5. As French colonists in a predominantly non-Caucasian nation, what does the family enjoy despite their relative poverty?
(a) Socio-economic power.
(b) Fine jewelry.
(c) Beautiful clothes.
(d) A chaffeured car.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does the older brother leave the colony to return to France?
2. After the father's death, what happens to the family property the mother invests in ?
3. Where did the family go after the father's death?
4. What is the name of the family's loyal domestic servant?
5. Who asks about the narrator's family's property investments?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the father's death affect the family?
2. Describe the narrator's outfit in Segment 2. In what way does it transform her?
3. How are the family treated in Chochinchina? Why?
4. How does the narrator feel after she receives news of the younger brother's death?
5. Describe the conversation between the mother and the daughter shortly before the family departs for France.
6. Why is the ferry crossing right before the narrator meets the lover considered her perfect moment in time?
7. Why does the mother choose to voice her opinion to the narrator right before leaving for France?
8. What is the social and economic status of the lover when the narrator meets him?
9. On occasion, when the mother would emerge from her depression, she would instruct the house to be cleaned. How would the family respond and why do you think they would feel this way?
10. Describe how the mother knew the father was going to die before receiving news of his death.
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