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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who approaches Mr. Pontellier underneath a white sunshade?
(a) Madame Lebrun and her son Robert
(b) Robert LeBrun and his wife
(c) The local priest
(d) His wife, Mrs. Edna Pontellier and the young Robert Lebrun

2. What does Madame Ratignolle do to Edna that she first finds unsettling?
(a) She is very physically affectionate.
(b) She never looks Edna in the eye when speaking to her.
(c) She rubs Edna's belly whenever she wants to.
(d) She speaks to Edna in a very mean tone.

3. How does Mrs. Pontellier react when her husband comes home from Klein's?
(a) With great enthusiasm
(b) Surprised that he is home so early
(c) Angry that he is home so late
(d) With little interest

4. Why does Mr. Pontellier stop reading his newspaper?
(a) His back hurts and he is uncomfortable.
(b) He gets a telegraph.
(c) He gets a telephone call.
(d) He cannot read it with any

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert talk a great deal about?

2. What does Mrs. Pontellier overhear Madame Ratignolle relate to Monsieur Farival in great detail?

3. When Mr. Pontellier checks in on his sons, he thinks that Raoul has:

4. Where is Mr. Pontellier eager to go the next day?

5. What kind of woman is Edna not?

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