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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segment 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the narrator and the lover first engage in sexual intercourse?
(a) His home.
(b) The ferry.
(c) Her school.
(d) Her home.

2. How long does Dô stay with the mother?
(a) Until the narrator's affair.
(b) Until the family leaves for France.
(c) Until the mother's death.
(d) Until Dô's death.

3. How does the narrator wear dresses?
(a) As if they were sacks.
(b) Very tight to show off her body.
(c) Backwards.
(d) A little loose but fitted.

4. What does the narrator tell the lover are inseparable?
(a) His money and her desire.
(b) His love and her desire.
(c) The narrator and the lover.
(d) Hélène Lagonelle and the narrator.

5. Although seemingly impossible, according to society at the time, what could the wives of the colonial potentates have done to keep their husbands from straying?
(a) Locked their husbands up at home.
(b) Grow younger.
(c) Retained their beauty.
(d) Put spells on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who never had their own dresses?

2. What does the narrator equate the older brother with?

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

4. Which does NOT describe Hélène Lagonelle?

5. In segments 5 and 6, as well as other parts of the novel, which characteristics best describe narrator?

(see the answer key)

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