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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Edna feel upon leaving the Ratignolles?
(a) Soothed and sleepy
(b) Profoundly changed
(c) Eager to go back
(d) Depressed rather than soothed

2. What does Edna want to do with Madame Ratignolle?
(a) Start a restaurant
(b) Start an art business
(c) Talk politics
(d) Paint a portrait of her

3. Why does Mr. Pontellier not try to persuade Edna to go to the wedding?
(a) He thinks she needs to stay back and look after the house.
(b) He does not want to bring her.
(c) He thinks it will get him out of going as well.
(d) He is following the doctor's advice to let her do as she likes.

4. What announcement does Edna make at Mademoiselle Reisz's?
(a) She is going to adopt Mariequita.
(b) She is going to start a family with Alcee.
(c) She is moving out of her house on Esplanade Street.
(d) She is moving to Paris to study painting.

5. What is Edna realizing about herself?
(a) That her children are a massive burden
(b) That she hates her husband
(c) That she has some emotions for Robert
(d) That she likes Victor, not Robert

Short Answer Questions

1. On what street do the Pontelliers live?

2. How does Victor Lebrun describe Edna?

3. What is Edna's father's reason for coming to town?

4. What has Robert done pretty much every summer at Grande Isle?

5. Once Mr. Pontellier realizes Edna will not come to bed, what does he do?

(see the answer key)

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