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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Pair of Silk Stockings.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has a weak heart?
(a) Josephine.
(b) Brently.
(c) Louise.
(d) John.

2. What is Louise imagining in her room?
(a) A future of endless possibilities.
(b) How her brother must have suffered before dying.
(c) What her husband is doing in heaven.
(d) What her husband is doing in hell.

3. What does Mildred decide to do?
(a) Apply for a nanny's position.
(b) Leave the farm.
(c) Marry the farmhand.
(d) Go to a convent.

4. What is one childhood crush Edna remembers?
(a) On a minister.
(b) On a cavalry officer.
(c) On a school teacher.
(d) On a farmer boy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Mrs. Sommers go after the store?

3. Whose wedding does Edna refuse to attend?

4. About what do Mrs. Sommers' neighbors gossip?

5. How does Edna feel when her children go to stay with their grandmother and Léonce is in New York?

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