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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How long does Dô stay with the mother?
2. What does the narrator ride on to board the ferry?
3. Who takes care of the family property?
4. As French colonists in a predominantly non-Caucasian nation, what does the family enjoy despite their relative poverty?
5. Who watches out for the narrator?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the narrator believe that she is able to become anything anyone wants her to be? What does this mean?
2. Once wealthy, now all of the family's money is tied up in property investments. Describe the family property around the time the narrator visits it.
3. Describe the character of Hélène Lagonelle.
4. In the opening of the novel, how does the narrator appear?
5. The narrator describes both the lover's body and her own in unique ways at the very beginning of their relationship. Explain how.
6. How was the narrator able to understand colonial life at such an early age?
7. Why does the mother consider writing, in regards to a career for the narrator, to be unconscionable?
8. Describe the older brother's behavior toward the lover.
9. In segment 14, the school officially complains to the mother about the outlandish behavior of her daughter. What does the mother say and how does the school respond?
10. How does the narration of events work in this novel? Is the way that narrator chooses to tell the story confusing or compelling?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Portraits and photography are widely talked about and referred to in this novel. Identify points in the novel where photographs are described and the metaphors used with the photographs. Why is this such a key element within the novel? What are the similarities between professional photography and real life? What are the differences? How do the narrator and her mother feel about photography?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the character of Hélène Lagonelle and the relationship between her and the narrator. How does that relationship develop and change throughout the novel? Provide examples.
Essay Topic 3
Although the colony of Chochinchina is a French colony, it is far removed from France. Explain the differences in the colony of Chochinchina and France as seen through the life of the narrator and her family. Do the differences have anything to do with the shift in time periods? Does life change for the narrator simply because she is no longer under the rule of her dysfunctional family?
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