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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Around what time does Edna finally get up?
(a) Two in the morning
(b) About one hour before dawn
(c) Noon the next day
(d) At the same time she always does, seven a.m.

2. Where does Robert suggest he and Edna go the next day?
(a) Grande Terre
(b) The Grand Canyon
(c) The Cayman Islands
(d) Grande Cheniere

3. What do Robert and Edna do before Mr. Pontellier returns to the cottage?
(a) They debate the merits of American literature.
(b) They bake a pie together.
(c) She sits in the hammock and Robert smokes, in silence.
(d) They play games with the children.

4. What news does Edna learn once she joins the others for dinner?
(a) That Robert is going to New York
(b) That Robert is actually married to Mariequita
(c) That Robert is going to Mexico
(d) That Robert is going to Europe

5. Where does Robert take Edna to recover?
(a) Madame Antoine's
(b) Mademoiselle Reisz's
(c) Madame Ratignolle
(d) Madame LeBrun's

6. Mrs. Pontellier talks about:
(a) The weather
(b) Her husband's business, their house on Esplanade Street
(c) Her father's Mississippi plantation, Kentucky, and her sister's engagement
(d) Her children

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

8. Who, according to Madame Ratignolle, was naughty?
(a) Adele herself
(b) Leonce
(c) Raoul
(d) Etienne, one of Edna's sons

9. Was Edna a good swimming student?
(a) Decent. Robert thought she needed more lessons.
(b) No. Robert was frustrated and thought it was futile to teach her.
(c) No one has seen her swim, so no one can say.
(d) She was outstanding.

10. How does Victor Lebrun describe Edna?
(a) Cute but too thin
(b) Homely
(c) Ravishing
(d) Lacking in fashion taste

11. When Mr. Pontellier checks in on his sons, he thinks that Raoul has:
(a) Been having nightmares
(b) A bizarre disease
(c) A strange animal with him
(d) A fever

12. Edna gradually awakens, as if from a dream to feel:
(a) That she really is in a dream
(b) That it is better to sleep in a real bed
(c) The realities pressing into her soul
(d) Like she should sleep and dream more

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

14. What does Robert say in response to Edna's comment that they have spent the entire day together?
(a) All but the hundred years she was sleeping
(b) He does not really care, so he has no response.
(c) He does not think that is correct.
(d) He is embarrassed at the remark and turns away.

15. Why are there no recent adult photographs of Robert at his mother's home?
(a) He does not like the way he has turned out.
(b) He stopped having them taken when he had to pay for them himself.
(c) He has not found a photographer he likes.
(d) He does not believe in photographs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Edna wonders how many years she has slept. Robert says:

2. How does Robert respond to Adele's request?

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

4. How does Edna feel upon leaving the Ratignolles?

5. Alone in her room, what does Edna do?

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