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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Edna thinks her husband's bad humor is because of:
(a) His bad finances
(b) The hot weather
(c) His work
(d) Her

3. Describe Mr. Ratignolle:
(a) Overly talkative
(b) Salt of the earth, cheerful, good hearted with common sense
(c) Quiet, stoic
(d) Dark, somber, not given to saying much to anyone

4. Madame Lebrun remarks that sometimes she thinks Mrs. Pontellier is:
(a) Callous
(b) Mysterious
(c) Capricious
(d) Devious

5. How has Robert's going away affected Edna?
(a) She feels like she is going mad.
(b) It has taken the brightness, the color, the meaning out of everything.
(c) She is not entirely sure yet.
(d) She has lost her appetite and is losing weight.

6. Why does Mr. Pontellier stop reading his newspaper?
(a) He gets a telegraph.
(b) He gets a telephone call.
(c) His back hurts and he is uncomfortable.
(d) He cannot read it with any

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

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

9. What does Madame Ratignolle mean when she talks about her condition?
(a) Her relationship with her husband
(b) Her pregnancy
(c) Her illness
(d) Her situation in life

10. Once Mr. Pontellier is asleep, Mrs. Pontellier leaves the room and:
(a) Writes letters to her father
(b) Cries almost uncontrollably
(c) Devises a scheme to move out
(d) Reads a book

11. And what does Leonce do when Edna asks him to come to bed?
(a) He comes immediately.
(b) He stays behind to have another round of wine.
(c) He ignores her and reads the newspaper.
(d) He stays behind to finish smoking his cigar.

12. 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 is embarrassed at the remark and turns away.
(d) He does not think that is correct.

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

14. What characteristic of the Creoles "impresses" Mrs. Pontellier?
(a) Their ability to drink a lot
(b) Their entire absence of prudery
(c) Their endurance especially when swimming
(d) Their literary knowledge

15. How does Edna react to the news she learns at dinner?
(a) She is skeptical.
(b) She is shocked.
(c) She has no reaction.
(d) She is delighted.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What folly has Mrs. Pontellier committed, according to her husband?

3. Why does Robert smoke cigarettes?

4. What happens on Tuesdays in the Pontellier home?

5. Who is the embodiment of every womanly grace and charm?

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