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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 10, 11, 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Retained their beauty.
(b) Put spells on them.
(c) Grow younger.
(d) Locked their husbands up at home.

2. The narrator has ____ older sibling(s).
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

3. How does the narrator describe the body of the lover?
(a) Feminine.
(b) Deformed.
(c) Androgynous.
(d) Masculine.

4. What helps to awaken the narrator's sexuality?
(a) Her schooling.
(b) A play she sees.
(c) The mother.
(d) Her new clothing.

5. In the novel, the mother is very concerned with the studies of her children and even attempts to plan the narrator's future. What does the mother decide that she wants the narrator to be?
(a) Mathematician.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Writer.
(d) Secretary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose wasteful lifestyle contributes to the family's poverty?

2. What type of automobile does the lover ride in?

3. The lover comments that it is rare to see a white girl ________.

4. How old was the narrator when she cut her hair for the first time?

5. What does the mother equate the narrator's awakening sexuality with?

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