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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Armand want Désirée to do?
(a) Swear to the local priest that she is white.
(b) Stay with him no matter what.
(c) Find out if someone in her ancestry is negro.
(d) Leave.

2. How much money does Mrs. Sommers receive?
(a) 1000 dollars.
(b) 15 dollars.
(c) 50 dollars.
(d) 100 dollars.

3. Who has just been killed in a railroad accident?
(a) Louise.
(b) Brently.
(c) No one.
(d) Josephine.

4. What does Mrs. Baroda say about her husband wanting Gouvernail for a second visit?
(a) She thinks is it a great idea.
(b) She objects.
(c) She is frightened.
(d) She is indifferent.

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

6. Why does Mrs. Baroda tell her husband she is going to visit some relatives?
(a) To help with the cotton picking.
(b) To avoid being around Gouvernail.
(c) There is a family wedding.
(d) One of them is ill.

7. What does Mrs. Sommers wish as she is riding home on the bus?
(a) That she had bought more chocolate for the children.
(b) That her husband would return to her.
(c) That her children would disappear.
(d) That the ride would never end.

8. What do Calixta and Alcée do?
(a) Play chess.
(b) Fight.
(c) Pick berries.
(d) Make love.

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. What does Désirée do with herself and her baby?
(a) Appeals to the priest to intervene.
(b) Kills Armand.
(c) Kills herself and her baby.
(d) Goes to live with her parents.

11. What does Bobinôt want of Calixta?
(a) For her to bake him a cake.
(b) To borrow her horse.
(c) To marry her.
(d) To borrow money.

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

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

14. Who are Bobinôt and Calixta and Alcée Laballière and Clarisse?
(a) Four siblings.
(b) Four characters in a fairy tale told to the child in the story.
(c) Two couples in the story.
(d) Four friends.

15. What frightens Calixta?
(a) Lightning striking a tree.
(b) Bobinôt is late.
(c) The hobo starts acting strange.
(d) Lightening strikes the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the successful planter?

2. What does Alcée write to his wife?

3. How does Louise die?

4. For whom does Mr. Sublet ask when he visits Bayou Têche?

5. Who is dead at the opening of the story?

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