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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In segment 13, who learns of the relationship and begins to attack it?
(a) The lover's father.
(b) Hélène Lagonelle.
(c) The younger brother.
(d) The mother.

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

4. What does the lover recall with great affection?
(a) His home in China.
(b) His mother.
(c) A trip to America.
(d) The Parisan nightlife.

5. How did the lover end up back in Chochinchina?
(a) He got bored with his life and wanted to go home.
(b) He was done with school and wanted to start working.
(c) His father recalled him with the threat of cutting him off.
(d) He missed his family and came back to see them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event is happening at the time in which the younger brother dies?

2. Which word best describes the older brother?

3. Who often joins the lover and the narrator at expensive restaurants and nightclubs?

4. Who often weeps?

5. In segment 14, who is an American woman from Boston that runs a house in Paris?

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