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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect has Alcee had on Edna?
(a) A subduing effect
(b) A narcotic effect
(c) No effect whatsoever
(d) A frigthening effect

2. What is a griffe?
(a) A person uniquely gifted in voodoo
(b) A person of mixed-race heritage, typically mulatto and American Indian parentage
(c) It is short for Giraffe.
(d) A French quarter grifter

3. When does Alcee finally say goodnight to Edna?
(a) When she became supple to his gentle seductive entreaties
(b) When she orders him to leave
(c) He does not because he stays until the morning.
(d) When she says goodbye first

4. Why does Edna tell Victor to stop singing?
(a) She hates that song.
(b) She wants to sing.
(c) He is a terrible singer.
(d) He is singing a song that Robert often sang to her.

5. Who arrives at Mademoiselle Reisz's while Edna waits there alone?
(a) Robert
(b) Alcee
(c) Leonce
(d) Victor

6. What does Alcee call Edna's new home?
(a) The ostrich's retreat
(b) The bird's nest
(c) The pigeon-house
(d) The love lair

7. Edna and Robert finally kiss. Who made the first move?
(a) Edna
(b) Robert
(c) They moved toward one another at exactly the same time.
(d) The author does not say.

8. Alone with Edna, what does Alcee show her?
(a) His private collection of paintings
(b) Scars on his back from beatings during his childhood
(c) A scar from a saber cut he got at age 19
(d) His journals

9. What explanation does Robert give for not writing to Edna?
(a) He could not find pen and paper.
(b) He thought she would not find his letters interesting.
(c) The postal rates were too high.
(d) He thought writing to Mademoiselle Reisz was enough.

10. What does Edna do after Alcee leaves?
(a) She cries.
(b) She jumps with joy.
(c) She writes to Leonce and tells him what happened.
(d) She laughs uncontrollably.

11. As Edna walks on the beach, what does she realize about Robert?
(a) That eventually he would melt out of her existence
(b) That he was a cad just like Alcee
(c) He was much too young for her.
(d) He probably had another girlfriend anyway.

12. What worries Mr. Pontellier about this situation?
(a) He does not care.
(b) His financial integrity
(c) How it will affect his health
(d) Whether he will be attractive to other women

13. Why did Robert leave Mexico?
(a) He ran out of money.
(b) He could not find work.
(c) He contracted a strange disease.
(d) The Mexicans were not very congenial.

14. According to Adele, what is Alcee's reputation?
(a) Very good
(b) Dreadful
(c) Respectable
(d) Not really known

15. How do the Pontellier children feel about their house being renovated?
(a) They do not understand.
(b) Upset
(c) Excited
(d) Confused

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor take from Mrs. Highcamp?

2. Who has written to Mademoiselle Reisz asking about Edna?

3. What did Robert write in his note to Edna?

4. Most of all, what did Edna gain?

5. Who interrupts Edna's and Robert's meeting?

(see the answer keys)

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