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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Désirée husband do soon after their first child is born?
(a) Kills her.
(b) Divorces her.
(c) Withdraws his affections.
(d) Sticks by her.

2. Where are Bobinôt and his son, four-year-old Bibi, waiting out a storm?
(a) In a barn.
(b) Under a rock ledge.
(c) At Friedheimer's store.
(d) In a sea cave.

3. What disgusts Gabriel?
(a) That his fiance sleeps with another man.
(b) That he killed Elodie.
(c) What Elodie has done.
(d) That he killed a man.

4. Who is dead at the opening of the story?
(a) Elizabeth Stock's sister.
(b) Elizabeth Stock's mother.
(c) Elizabeth Stock.
(d) Elizabeth Stock's father.

5. Who unnerves Mrs. Baroda?
(a) Her cook.
(b) Gourvernail.
(c) Gaston.
(d) Her maid.

6. Where did Elizabeth Stock work?
(a) At the post office in Stonelift.
(b) She is unemployed.
(c) She is a baker's helper.
(d) She works at the local bank.

7. Who does Evariste save?
(a) Mr. Sublet's son.
(b) Mr. Sublet.
(c) No one.
(d) Martinette.

8. Where does Athénaïse go when she leaves Cazeau a second time?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Lafayette.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) New Orleans.

9. Of what is Cazeau reminded when he goes to fetch his wife?
(a) A slave his father once had to retrieve.
(b) A saying his mother told him on his wedding day.
(c) Going to market.
(d) The way his friends laughed when he told them who he planned to marry.

10. How does Mrs. Baroda feel when she speaks to Gouvernail?
(a) That he is not human.
(b) Attracted to him.
(c) Repulsed by him.
(d) That he does not respect her.

11. Who adopts Désirée?
(a) Her mother's older sister and her husband.
(b) No one.
(c) The Valmondé family.
(d) Her father's parents.

12. How much advance payment does Sublet give the 'Cadian man?
(a) 20 gold pieces.
(b) 10 silver dollars.
(c) Nothing.
(d) 2 silver dollars.

13. Why does Désirée's husband think she is not white?
(a) She has habits that are like negroes.
(b) Her baby is not white.
(c) Her grandfather is dark skinned.
(d) He has no reason; just an instinctive feeling.

14. What are Elodie and Gabriel playing?
(a) Cribbage.
(b) Checkers.
(c) Croquet.
(d) Chess.

15. Who is Gouvernail?
(a) Mrs. Baroda's sister-in-law.
(b) Mrs. Baroda's sister.
(c) Gaston's sister.
(d) A college friend of Gaston's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Louise imagining in her room?

2. Who breaks the news gently to a loved one of the accident?

3. Who does Calixta allow to shelter in her home?

4. Why is Louise feeling relieved?

5. Who does Alcée flirt with at the ball?

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