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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leonce believe is a way to become rich?
(a) To speculate in real estate
(b) To con people into buying investments they do not need
(c) To make money, not save it
(d) To keep children in public not private schools

2. Does Mademoiselle Reisz's performance affect anyone else?
(a) Only those who know music
(b) It excites the adults only.
(c) It excites the children only.
(d) It arouses everyone.

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

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

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

6. Edna wonders how many years she has slept. Robert says:
(a) An entire day
(b) You have slept exactly one hundred minutes.
(c) About half an hour
(d) You have slept precisely one hundred years.

7. What does Edna do after her conversation with Mademoiselle Reisz?
(a) She plunges into the ocean with abandon.
(b) She tries to find Robert's contact information.
(c) She goes for a walk.
(d) She announces she is going to renew her vows to Leonce.

8. Who does Edna search for?
(a) Victor Lebrun
(b) Mariequita
(c) Madame Antoine
(d) Mademoiselle Reisz

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Edna go with her sketches?

2. How does Edna react to the news she learns at dinner?

3. Mrs. Pontellier talks about:

4. What does Mademoiselle Reisz say to Edna after her performance?

5. What effect does music generally have on Edna?

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