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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about her situation as a "kept woman"?
(a) She feels ashamed.
(b) She finds it strange.
(c) She finds it comforting.
(d) She wants to tell her mother.

2. How does the mother feel about the older brother?
(a) She thinks he is spoiled.
(b) She is appalled by his behavior toward her other children.
(c) She considers him her only validated child.
(d) She wants him to take care of the family's money.

3. What does the narrator describe sex as being related to?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) Water.
(d) Life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the primary recipient of the older brother's anger?

2. What subject was NOT discussed in the houses where the narrator took her meals and spent much time?

3. What does the lover have difficulty doing?

4. Who controlled when and where the lover and the narrator would meet?

5. When does the narrator see imperfection in the lover?

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