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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does most of the mother's income go?
(a) To buy dresses and jewelry for the mother.
(b) To pay the workers on the family's land.
(c) To paying the brother's debt.
(d) To pay for the narrator's schooling.

2. 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) Secretary.
(b) Writer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Mathematician.

3. What contributed to the narrator's ravaged face?
(a) A fight with the older brother.
(b) An car accident.
(c) Smoking heavily.
(d) Drinking heavily.

4. What material is the narrator's dress made of?
(a) Satin.
(b) Silk.
(c) Nylon.
(d) Cotton.

5. What does the mother equate the narrator's awakening sexuality with?
(a) Bad influences.
(b) Being a teenager.
(c) Money.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator wear dresses?

3. What does the mother suffer from throughout the narrator's life?

4. Later in life, what does the narrator write many books about?

5. Where did the narrator find her hat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the Lady from Savana Khet and why is her story put in segment 15?

2. Do the narrator and the lover have contact at any point after the narrator leaves Chochinchina for France? If so, describe this contact.

3. Explain why the relationship would not have lasted even if the narrator would have remained in Chochinchina.

4. Describe the mother's behavior toward her daughter's conduct during the height of her relationship with the lover in segments 15 and 16.

5. How are the family treated in Chochinchina? Why?

6. What is the narrator's relationship with her family later in life?

7. What are the older brother's actions toward the younger brother and how does the mother respond?

8. What does the lover fear that the narrator wants from the relationship, and how does the narrator respond?

9. Why does the narrator believe that she is able to become anything anyone wants her to be? What does this mean?

10. The lover makes a comment about the narrator's method of transportation. What is it...why is it strange... and what does it indicate?

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