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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Madame Ratignolle think of the Mexicans?
(a) She knows nothing of them and is very curious.
(b) They are a treacherous, unscrupulous and revengeful people.
(c) She confuses them with the Spanish.
(d) They are the most delightful people she knows.

3. Although they do not talk, what does the author say is happening between Robert and Edna?
(a) They are allowing anger to fester within themselves.
(b) They are feeling the throbbings of desire.
(c) They are learning to be silent around each other.
(d) They have a lot to say but cannot find the right words.

4. What has Robert done pretty much every summer at Grande Isle?
(a) He would devote himself to one married woman.
(b) Gone fishing
(c) He has written a novel.
(d) He has built a house.

5. What does Madame Ratignolle beg Robert to do?
(a) Start an affair with Edna
(b) Fix her house
(c) Accompany her to the house
(d) Babsyit her children

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert talk a great deal about?

2. What does Edna do at Madame Antoine's?

3. What starts to change in Edna this summer at Grande Isle?

4. Why is Mr. Pontellier reading a day-old newspaper?

5. Why does Mr. Pontellier stop reading his newspaper?

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