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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Respectable Woman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Madame Ratignolle tell Edna when Edna returns?
(a) That Étienne is quite ill.
(b) That Léonce will be delayed getting back.
(c) That a fresh catch of fish has just arrived.
(d) That Étienne was naughty.

2. Who is Madame Lebrun?
(a) A famous pianist.
(b) The woman who rents out the vacation cottages.
(c) A woman who runs an illicit house.
(d) Léonce Pontellier's mother.

3. What does the character finally do?
(a) Lets itself die.
(b) Leaps off the tree and flies.
(c) Ventures completely into the outside world.
(d) Seeks vengeance against its master.

4. What does Mr. Pontellier want?
(a) Edna to go back to the city with him.
(b) Edna to stay with the children in their room for the night.
(c) Edna to go to bed with him.
(d) Nothing.

5. Who is Mariequita?
(a) A young woman to whom Robert speaks on the boat.
(b) Mr. Pontellier's secretary.
(c) Edna's maid.
(d) Madame Ratignolle's nanny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Robert been teaching Edna?

2. What is Calixta's response to Bobinôt's question?

3. What is the opening setting for the novelette The Awakening?

4. Who comes to the pigeon house while Robert is there?

5. Why is Edna's family opposed to marriage to Léonce?

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