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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 2, 3, 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What river does the ferry travel across that takes the narrator from her home to her school?
(a) Saigon River.
(b) Red River.
(c) Mekong River.
(d) Tonkin River.

2. At what age does the narrator leave Chochinchina for Paris?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Eighteen.

3. Later in her life, whose photograph does the narrator see that reminds her of herself as the young woman on the ferry?
(a) Her twenty-year-old son.
(b) Her mother as a young woman.
(c) A movie star of the day.
(d) A friend from her childhood.

4. Around what time is the novel narrated?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1929.

5. During the scene on the ferry, why does the narrator go to stand by the railing?
(a) She is bored.
(b) She is waiting for someone.
(c) She wants to see the water.
(d) She is seasick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of clothes does the lover wear?

2. At what age did the narrator start receiving sexual attention from men?

3. The narrator has ____ older sibling(s).

4. 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?

5. Between which years do most of the action referred to in the novel take place?

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