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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the primary recipient of the older brother's anger?
(a) The lover.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The younger brother.
(d) The mother.

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

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

4. In segment 14, who is an American woman from Boston that runs a house in Paris?
(a) Betty Fernandez.
(b) Marie-Claude Carpenter.
(c) Harriet Lagonelle.
(d) Jean Thomas.

5. What did the mother always take with her on her trips to France?
(a) A memento from the father.
(b) The younger brother.
(c) A ball gown.
(d) Family portraits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the biggest influence on the why the relationship between the narrator and the lover is ending?

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

3. How does the narrator describe the body of the lover?

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

5. How does the mother feel about the older brother?

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