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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator ride on to board the ferry?
(a) A truck.
(b) A car.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A bus.

2. How does the narrator obtain her make-up?
(a) She gets it from Dô.
(b) She borrows it from her mother.
(c) She steals it from a store.
(d) She gets it from Hélène Lagonelle.

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

4. What type of stores does the narrator often visit?
(a) Grocery stores.
(b) Twice-discounted clothing stores.
(c) Writing supplies stores.
(d) Lingerie stores.

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

6. What does the narrator praise of Hélène Lagonelle's?
(a) Her body's sexual virtues.
(b) Her long, flowing hair.
(c) Her family's fine home.
(d) Her grades.

7. What does the mother suffer from throughout the narrator's life?
(a) Rashes.
(b) Depression.
(c) Headaches.
(d) Nausea.

8. The narrator remembers a photograph of her mother in segment 4. When was the photograph taken?
(a) Right before the mother's death.
(b) A decade after the ferry ride.
(c) After the younger brother's death.
(d) A decade before the ferry ride.

9. The lover comments that it is rare to see a white girl ________.
(a) On a ferry.
(b) In a man's hat.
(c) On a native bus.
(d) In Chochinchina.

10. What is the name of the family's loyal domestic servant?
(a) Thị.
(b) Marguerite.
(c) Hélène.
(d) Dô.

11. Who are evident but unequal friends in the novel?
(a) The mother and Dô.
(b) Dô and the older brother.
(c) Hélène Lagonelle and the lover.
(d) The lover and Dô.

12. In contrast to what the mother plans, what does the narrator want to be?
(a) Mathematician.
(b) Seamstress.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Writer.

13. Who asks about the narrator's family's property investments?
(a) The lover.
(b) The bus driver and ferry hands.
(c) The government officials.
(d) Hélène Lagonelle.

14. At what age did the narrator start receiving sexual attention from men?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fourteen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty.

15. As a young woman, the narrator was _________.
(a) Funny.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who uses the money that the narrator has access to through her relationship?

2. What contributed to the narrator's ravaged face?

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

4. Where does most of the mother's income go?

5. How does the mother earn money?

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