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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Segments 17, 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In segment 14, which of the following character or characters in the novel does the narrator state she remembers with the most clarity?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her teachers.
(d) The two women who ran the houses in Paris.

2. About how old is the narrator when she last sees the property?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Fifteen.

3. What word best describes the family?
(a) Close-knit.
(b) Functional.
(c) Loving.
(d) Dysfunctional.

4. What two new characters do we meet in segment 14?
(a) Harriet Lagonelle and Marie-Claude Carpenter.
(b) Betty Carpenter and Marie-Claude Fernandez.
(c) Betty Fernandez and Hélène Lagonelle.
(d) Marie-Claude Carpenter and Betty Fernandez.

5. What desire does the narrator acquire later in life?
(a) The desire to see the lover.
(b) The desire to die.
(c) The desire to be an actress.
(d) The desire to start a new life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator get her dresses?

2. What is the mother obsessed with in regards to the narrator?

3. What has happened to the narrator over the course of the relationship?

4. How old is the lover when the relationship with the narrator begins?

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?

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