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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of woman is Edna not?
(a) A crazy woman
(b) A mean woman
(c) A mother-woman
(d) A career woman

3. How does the author describe Edna's feelings for her own children?
(a) She is fond of them in an uneven, impulsive way.
(b) She adores them completely.
(c) She is fond of them because the law says she should be.
(d) She is not fond of them at all.

4. After declining Robert's invitation to go to the beach, how does Edna feel?
(a) She is glad to be alone and painting
(b) She feels relieved, because she cannot swim.
(c) She feels sad, because it might the last time he ever asks her.
(d) She feels contradictory, regretting she had not gone and glad that she had not.

5. Who does Edna ask the little Negro girl to wake up?
(a) Adele
(b) Victor
(c) Madame Lebrun
(d) Robert

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edna do when her husband orders her to come inside?

2. In retrospect, how does Edna feel about stomping on her wedding ring?

3. How soon will Robert depart?

4. When talking to both Adele and Edna, Robert is jovial and jokes often. Is he this way when alone with Edna?

5. Does Mademoiselle Reisz's performance affect anyone else?

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