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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Madame Ratignolle think of the Mexicans?
(a) They are a treacherous, unscrupulous and revengeful people.
(b) She knows nothing of them and is very curious.
(c) She confuses them with the Spanish.
(d) They are the most delightful people she knows.

2. What starts to change in Edna this summer at Grande Isle?
(a) The mantel of openness that had always enveloped her is tightening.
(b) The idea of living here year-round is gaining its appeal.
(c) She longs to have another child.
(d) The mantel of reservation that had always enveloped her is loosening.

3. Why does it anger Mr. Pontellier so much that Edna went out on Tuesday?
(a) He has a short fuse.
(b) He hates anything out of the ordinary.
(c) He is actually not that angry but sarcastic.
(d) He thinks it will hurt his business and reputation.

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

5. According to Edna, her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an:
(a) Act of rebellion
(b) Act of convenience
(c) Amiable thing to do
(d) Accident

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

7. In retrospect, how does Edna feel about stomping on her wedding ring?
(a) Perfectly fine
(b) She still cannot believe she did such a thing
(c) Foolish
(d) Vindicated

8. What were some of the reasons Edna decided to marry Leonce Pontellier?
(a) He was completely different from her father.
(b) Her father and sister were violently opposed to him.
(c) He was wealthy beyond her imagination.
(d) He was irresitibly handsome and charming.

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

10. What does Madame Ratignolle do to Edna that she first finds unsettling?
(a) She rubs Edna's belly whenever she wants to.
(b) She never looks Edna in the eye when speaking to her.
(c) She is very physically affectionate.
(d) She speaks to Edna in a very mean tone.

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

12. Describe Mrs. Pontellier's eyes.
(a) Dull, slow, blue like the sky
(b) Green and grayish at the same time
(c) It is impossible to see her eyes hidden behind sunglasses
(d) Quick, bright, yellowish brown, about the color of her hair

13. 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 has not found a photographer he likes.
(c) He does not believe in photographs.
(d) He stopped having them taken when he had to pay for them himself.

14. When Edna cannot find Mademoiselle Reisz, who does she go to for help?
(a) Madame Lebrun
(b) The Police
(c) Leonce
(d) Adele Ratignolle

15. What happens to Edna at the service?
(a) She starts crying and cannot stop.
(b) She renounces religion.
(c) She sings too loudly and is told to leave.
(d) She nearly faints and has to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Pontellier react when her husband comes home from Klein's?

2. What is Edna realizing about herself?

3. What do the Farival twins perform at the Grand Isle celebration?

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

5. What had Edna attempted to learn all summer?

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