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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert say forced him to go to Mexico?
(a) Pressure from his brother.
(b) Pressure from Edna's husband.
(c) Pressure from his mother.
(d) His love for Edna.

2. Whose picture did Edna keep when she is a child?
(a) A famous actor.
(b) A famous playwright.
(c) Her brother's best friend.
(d) One she paints of a boy next door.

3. What does the character keep doing?
(a) Crawling under its blankets.
(b) Crying.
(c) Falling asleep.
(d) Looking further and further into the outside world.

4. What does Edna think she understands?
(a) The meaning of life.
(b) How Alcée is able to seduce her.
(c) Why her husband treats her the way he does.
(d) Why Robert went to Mexico.

5. Why is Léonce Pontellier concerned?
(a) His father is ill.
(b) His latest business venture is failing.
(c) His mother is ill.
(d) His wife has become badly sunburned.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Edna argue with her father?

2. What does Dr. Mandelet ask about Edna?

3. What does Dr. Mandelet say he will do?

4. How does Victor upset Edna at the dinner party?

5. How does Edna speak to her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Madame worry about concerning Robert and Edna?

2. Why do Edna and her husband argue and what does each do?

3. What does the creature finally do?

4. What happens between Robert and Edna by the end of Chapter 35?

5. What story does Edna tell and how does she explain knowing of the story?

6. What happens when Edna goes to be with Madame Ratignolle as she is having her baby?

7. Describe the Pontellier family.

8. How does Edna feel about living in the pigeon house?

9. Where does Robert decide to go and how does Edna react?

10. What analogy does Edna think of from her childhood?

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