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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Edna's father believes her marriage would be stronger if:
(a) Mr. Pontellier stayed home more evenings with her.
(b) Mr. Pontellier would stay home full-time with her.
(c) Mr. Pontellier supported her painting career.
(d) Mr. Pontellier made her his business partner.

2. Who has written to Mademoiselle Reisz asking about Edna?
(a) Mariequita
(b) Tonie
(c) Robert
(d) Madame Antoine

3. Describe the nature of Robert's and Edna's conversation:
(a) Very intellectual
(b) Very proper and polite
(c) As if they had never left each other
(d) A bit awkward, mostly small talk

4. Of what does Edna speak with authority?
(a) Gambling
(b) Race horses
(c) High society
(d) Alcohol

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

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

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

8. What does Edna regret about her kiss with Alcee?
(a) That it did not come from real love
(b) That it did not last longer
(c) That this new lover has such a strange name
(d) That it did not lead to more

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

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

11. What is her overwhelming feeling after kissing Alcee?
(a) A feeling of lightness
(b) A feeling of excitement
(c) A feeling of inevitablity
(d) A feeling of irresponsibility

12. Where will Edna move?
(a) Another grand house on the other side of town
(b) A little house around the corner
(c) Her mother-in-law's house in the countryside
(d) A totally different city

13. Who is Edna thinking of when she returns home?
(a) Her sons
(b) The Colonel
(c) Robert
(d) Leonce

14. What does Edna promise before leaving?
(a) That they will go back to Mexico
(b) That they will have to marry in a civil ceremony
(c) That they will be together from now on
(d) That she will paint his portrait

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Alcee Arobin?

2. Who does Mr. Pontellier drop in to visit in town one morning?

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

4. What does Alcee call Edna's new home?

5. What does Adele tell Edna to do?

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