The Awakening Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Awakening Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Leonce is so dissatisfied with dinner he leaves to:
(a) Go to see his doctor
(b) Go to a restaurant
(c) Go to the club
(d) Go to the Ratignolles

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 sad, because it might the last time he ever asks her.
(c) She feels relieved, because she cannot swim.
(d) She feels contradictory, regretting she had not gone and glad that she had not.

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

6. Over whom did Victor and Robert once fight?
(a) Mariequita, the Spanish girl
(b) A girl they went to school with
(c) A married woman on the Grande Isle
(d) Adele

7. What is singing in French and a little Spanish?
(a) A green and yellow parrot
(b) A green and yellow iguana
(c) A fat man
(d) A fat lady

8. Raoul's condition prompts Mr. Pontellier to accuse his wife of:
(a) Being a great mother
(b) Neglecting their children
(c) Hating him
(d) Giving Raoul the wrong medicine

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

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

11. On what street do the Pontelliers live?
(a) Avocado Street
(b) Esplanade Street
(c) Wall Street
(d) Bourbon Street

12. Why does Edna feel a pang of jealousy toward Madame Lebrun?
(a) Robert wrote to his mother but not to Edna.
(b) She is more beautiful than Edna.
(c) She is a better painter than Edna.
(d) She is richer than Edna.

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

14. What does Edna see when Mademoiselle Reisz plays?
(a) Nothing. But she feels passions that make her choke with tears.
(b) The future in gross detail
(c) Her life unfold like a beautiful flower
(d) Herself playing the piano

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Edna cannot find Mademoiselle Reisz, who does she go to for help?

2. What does Robert talk a great deal about?

3. What does Madame Ratignolle do to Edna that she first finds unsettling?

4. Why does Robert smoke cigarettes?

5. What does Mr. Pontellier promise to bring back for his sons?

(see the answer keys)

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