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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Alcee's kiss with Edna:
(a) Edna felt like a whore afterward.
(b) It was a flaming torch that kindled desire.
(c) It was cold, unemotional.
(d) It was the kind of kiss a brother gives a sister.

2. What does Edna want to do before dinner?
(a) Bathe in the ocean
(b) Go fishing
(c) Play the piano
(d) Take a nap

3. Why does Mr. Pontellier not try to persuade Edna to go to the wedding?
(a) He thinks she needs to stay back and look after the house.
(b) He thinks it will get him out of going as well.
(c) He does not want to bring her.
(d) He is following the doctor's advice to let her do as she likes.

4. Who interrupts Edna's and Robert's meeting?
(a) Victor
(b) Alcee
(c) Leonce
(d) Adele

5. What announcement does Edna make at Mademoiselle Reisz's?
(a) She is going to adopt Mariequita.
(b) She is moving out of her house on Esplanade Street.
(c) She is going to start a family with Alcee.
(d) She is moving to Paris to study painting.

6. What does Edna receive with her husband's letter of disapproval?
(a) Instructions on how to get to this mother's house
(b) Instructions to contact a lawyer to start their divorce
(c) Instructions to contact an architect to remodel their house
(d) Nothing

7. Who does Mr. Pontellier discuss with the doctor?
(a) Janet, Edna's sister
(b) Adele
(c) Edna, his wife
(d) Etienne and Raoul

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

9. Where is Edna at the end of this story?
(a) On a ship to Mexico
(b) In the ocean, physically too tired to swim back
(c) Having dinner with Victor and Mariequita
(d) Back on Esplanade Street, with Leonce

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

11. Where does Arobin urge Edna to go with him?
(a) The French Quarter
(b) Paris
(c) Shell Road
(d) Bourbon Street

12. Leonce tells Edna he will return in March after which they will go where?
(a) Abroad
(b) To Asia
(c) California
(d) To Africa

13. What does Victor's kiss on Edna's hand feel like?
(a) Disgusting
(b) A pleasing sting
(c) Like punch in the gut
(d) Cold and icy

14. How does Mr. Pontellier take the news of his wife's move?
(a) With bewilderment
(b) With unqualified disapproval and remonstrance
(c) Well--he expected it.
(d) With joy

15. Why does Madame Ratignolle complain to Edna?
(a) She thinks Edna has gone mad.
(b) She misses her and has not seen her lately.
(c) She thought Alcee was interested in her, not Edna.
(d) She has no one else to complain to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edna promise before leaving?

2. What is a griffe?

3. Edna and Robert finally kiss. Who made the first move?

4. Does Robert know that Edna is reading his letters to Mademoiselle Reisz?

5. Who is Edna thinking of when she returns home?

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