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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to the narrator over the course of the relationship?
(a) She has grown up and become more feminine.
(b) She has aged rapidly and is now unattractive.
(c) She has become greedy and unkind.
(d) She has lost her interest in sex.

2. What does the narrator equate the older brother with?
(a) Strength.
(b) War.
(c) Money.
(d) Poverty.

3. According to the narrator, what showed things as they really were?
(a) Photos taken in professional sessions.
(b) Portraits drawn by a professional artist.
(c) Her own memories.
(d) Photos taken by visitors or strangers.

4. Because of her involvement in the relationship with the lover, how do people in the colony react toward the narrator?
(a) They mock her.
(b) They question her about it.
(c) They avoid her.
(d) She becomes more popular.

5. In whose presence does the narrator find the lover discovered and undesirable?
(a) The younger brother.
(b) The mother.
(c) The older brother.
(d) The lover's father.

6. What did the mother often do with the family?
(a) She assembled them for professional photography sessions.
(b) She had their fortunes read by a local psychic.
(c) She had their portraits drawn by a professional artist.
(d) She took them to see plays at the local theater.

7. Who often weeps?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The lover.
(c) The lover's father.
(d) Hélène Lagonelle.

8. Who controlled when and where the lover and the narrator would meet?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The mother.
(c) The lover.
(d) The older brother.

9. What is done to the lover on the outings to the restaurants and nightclubs?
(a) He is mostly ignored.
(b) He is not allowed to speak to the narrator.
(c) He is made to sit at a different table.
(d) He has to stand the whole time.

10. In a letter to the narrator after high school, what sport does the younger brother say he has taken up?
(a) Field hockey.
(b) Golf.
(c) Polo.
(d) Tennis.

11. The mother's actions towards the girl's situation include all of the following except:
(a) The mother defends her daughter.
(b) The mother throws her daughter out of the house.
(c) The mother weeps.
(d) The mother laughs about her daughter's excesses.

12. How many letters does the younger brother write to his sister during the period after high school?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) One.
(d) Twenty or more.

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

14. When does the narrator see imperfection in the lover?
(a) When he turns down the sexual advances of the narrator.
(b) When he explains how his father amassed his wealth.
(c) When he refuses to pay a restaurant bill.
(d) When he becomes acquainted with the family.

15. Who does the narrator believe never knew the pleasure of sex?
(a) The older brother.
(b) The father.
(c) The mother.
(d) Dô.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the mother, what has the daughter done to her own life?

2. How does the narrator feel about her situation as a "kept woman"?

3. How many husbands has the mother had?

4. In segment 14, what does the narrator begin to flaunt while she is still in school?

5. What does Hélène Lagonelle talk often of during her conversations with the narrator?

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