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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is Mr. Pontellier reading a day-old newspaper?
(a) He is too cheap to buy the day's paper.
(b) The day's paper has not yet reached the Grande Isle.
(c) He is a slow reader .
(d) He likes old news, not current news.

4. Where is Robert when Edna discovers his plan?
(a) On the beach
(b) On his way to Mexico
(c) In an adjacent room
(d) In the same room

5. Alone with Edna, what does Alcee show her?
(a) His journals
(b) His private collection of paintings
(c) A scar from a saber cut he got at age 19
(d) Scars on his back from beatings during his childhood

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Edna speak with authority?

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

3. Rather than paint, what does Mr. Pontellier think his wife should be doing?

4. Why are there no recent adult photographs of Robert at his mother's home?

5. What does Victor say has changed Edna?

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