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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What relationship does Sharon have with John?
(a) She quits working for him.
(b) They have no relationship.
(c) She has affairs with him.
(d) She has remained his secretary.

2. How does Sam make John feel?
(a) Very successful.
(b) Sad about his life.
(c) Very happy.
(d) Sam makes John physically ill.

3. Why does Kate think that Harold's wife is strange?
(a) She is of a different social class than Kate.
(b) She is old and mean.
(c) Harold's wife is very unattractive.
(d) She does not perform the typical housewife duties that other Southern women do.

4. What does John give Kate in this chapter?
(a) A kiss.
(b) Love.
(c) A ring.
(d) The freedom that she thinks she wants.

5. How is Kate dressed for dinner?
(a) She looks awful.
(b) Very casually.
(c) Like she is going to a funeral.
(d) She is very dressed up and looks amazing.

6. What does Aunt Emily enjoy giving?
(a) Lectures.
(b) Condolences.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Advice.

7. Why has John given up his search?
(a) John does not give up.
(b) He says it is because he is a member of his mother's family.
(c) He grows tired of trying.
(d) He finds his purpose.

8. What does Kate feel about the request?
(a) Agitated and scared.
(b) Free.
(c) Excited.
(d) Happy.

9. Who does the couple run into on their trip?
(a) John's girlfriend.
(b) Their family.
(c) John's boss.
(d) Sidney Gross and his wife.

10. What does Kate wish to be in Chicago?
(a) A woman of lesser social status.
(b) A nobody in a city of anybodies.
(c) A new woman.
(d) A free person.

11. How does john feel when he leaves his aunt's house?
(a) Confused.
(b) Despondent.
(c) Happy.
(d) Misled.

12. What settles once Kate leaves?
(a) anger.
(b) fear.
(c) happiness.
(d) malaise.

13. Who does Aunt Emily call after Kate takes pills?
(a) Uncle Jules.
(b) Sam.
(c) Dr Minx.
(d) John.

14. How does Kate want to travel to Chicago?
(a) By train.
(b) By Taxi.
(c) By Car.
(d) By Airplane.

15. What does the reader speculate at the end of the novel?
(a) Whether or not Kate could complete her assigned tasks.
(b) If the couple will move out of Louisiana.
(c) If the two characters will stay married.
(d) Whether or not the couple will gain the courage to break society's constraints.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John give Kate at the end of the book?

2. What is Kate unsure of?

3. Who is waiting for John upon his arrival at Aunt Emily's house.

4. Why does Kate think marriage is a bad idea?

5. Who does Sharon end up marrying?

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