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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. About how old is the narrator when she last sees the property?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Fifteen.

2. What does the mother suffer from throughout the narrator's life?
(a) Nausea.
(b) Rashes.
(c) Headaches.
(d) Depression.

3. After the father's death, the mother is in control of the family's finances. She consequently mismanages the money, leaving the family poor. What did the mother buy that resulted in the loss of the family's wealth?
(a) Furniture.
(b) Jewelry.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Property.

4. What type of clothes does the lover wear?
(a) Vietnamese.
(b) Chinese.
(c) American.
(d) European.

5. After the father's death, what happens to the family property the mother invests in ?
(a) It isn't taken care of properly and falls into decay.
(b) The lands thrive and the family makes money off of it.
(c) Villagers set fire to it, and it becomes a wasteland.
(d) It is sold to a nearby village who builds a school on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of her early family life, what does the narrator believe to be true about herself?

2. At what age does the narrator leave Chochinchina for Paris?

3. Who drives a Citroën B12?

4. Who watches out for the narrator?

5. Chochinchina is today known as what country?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what would happen to the wives of the colonial potentates and the law of error.

2. What is the relationship between the mother and Dô, and what does it indicate?

3. Why does the mother consider writing, in regards to a career for the narrator, to be unconscionable?

4. How does the lover feel about the narrator at the end of the relationship?

5. Describe the character of Hélène Lagonelle.

6. How does the narrator feel after she receives news of the younger brother's death?

7. What does the relationship do to the couple with reference to society?

8. Do the narrator and the lover have contact at any point after the narrator leaves Chochinchina for France? If so, describe this contact.

9. How are the family treated in Chochinchina? Why?

10. How does the father's death affect the family?

(see the answer keys)

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