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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Pontellier promise to bring back for his sons?
(a) Bourbon balls
(b) Bonbons and peanuts
(c) Ice cream
(d) Candies and walnuts

2. What does Edna call the piece she often hears Mademoiselle Reisz play?
(a) Solitaire
(b) Solitude
(c) Sunshine
(d) Swinging Blues

3. As Edna walks around town, who occupies her thoughts?
(a) Raoul
(b) Alphonse
(c) Leonce
(d) Robert

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Edna realize about herself after learning of Robert's departure?
(a) She does not like Robert as much as she thought.
(b) She might just take off and join him .
(c) She has always wanted to go to Mexico.
(d) She is experiencing a real infatuation.

11. How does Edna feel upon leaving the Ratignolles?
(a) Eager to go back
(b) Depressed rather than soothed
(c) Soothed and sleepy
(d) Profoundly changed

12. When did Robert decide to make this trip?
(a) Months before
(b) He cannot recall.
(c) Last year
(d) That very afternoon, at four o'clock

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

14. What does Edna throw at Robert?
(a) A pillow
(b) An orange she plucked from a tree
(c) A frying pan
(d) Her shoe

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does opening up to Madame Ratignolle do for Edna?

2. Where is Mr. Pontellier eager to go the next day?

3. Edna thinks her husband's bad humor is because of:

4. How has Robert's going away affected Edna?

5. What does Edna do at Madame Antoine's?

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