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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Mr. Pontellier eager to go the next day?
(a) Easy Street, to open a bar
(b) Bourbon Street, the heart of New Orleans
(c) Wall Street, to conduct business
(d) Carondelet Street, the business center of the city

2. Where will Montel be next month?
(a) On a cruise ship
(b) Vera Cruz
(c) No one is really sure
(d) Santa Cruz

3. Mrs. Pontellier talks about:
(a) Her children
(b) The weather
(c) Her father's Mississippi plantation, Kentucky, and her sister's engagement
(d) Her husband's business, their house on Esplanade Street

4. What folly has Mrs. Pontellier committed, according to her husband?
(a) She is under a white sunshade when a black one would be better.
(b) She has bought an ugly swimsuit.
(c) She has bathed at a bad time.
(d) She has taken swimming lessons .

5. What effect does music generally have on Edna?
(a) Sedative. It makes her sleepy.
(b) It has a way of making her anxious.
(c) It has a way of evoking pictures in her mind.
(d) None. She hates music.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe Edna's feelings for her own children?

2. What does Robert jokingly say happened to Mrs. Pontellier when she was in the ocean?

3. Edna wonders how many years she has slept. Robert says:

4. Around what time does Edna finally get up?

5. What characteristic of the Creoles "impresses" Mrs. Pontellier?

(see the answer key)

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