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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Edna do while her husband is in New York?
(a) She redecorates the house.
(b) She learns needlepoint.
(c) She plays card games.
(d) She spends time with Mrs. Highcamp and Alcee Arobin.

4. What is a mulatresse?
(a) A woman who resembles a mullet fish
(b) A special kind of seamstress
(c) A woman of mixed-race heritage
(d) The definition is not known.

5. Why does Edna cry when she listens to Mademoiselle Reisz play the piano?
(a) It is too beautiful to imagine.
(b) It elicits the emotions she felt earlier in the summer.
(c) It is actually awful but she cannot bring herself to say so.
(d) It reminds her of Leonce.

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

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

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

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

10. Who will pay for Edna's expensive dinner party?
(a) Leonce
(b) Robert
(c) Victor
(d) Alcee

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

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

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

14. Why is Doctor Mandelet not bothered by Madame Ratignolle's complaints?
(a) Her husband is the one who matters, not her.
(b) She has lost her mind.
(c) Every patient complains, so it is not important.
(d) He is used to them and knows she is a loyal patient.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Madame Ratignolle complain to Edna?

2. What does the doctor explain about women to Mr. Pontellier?

3. What is a griffe?

4. How does Edna react to the note?

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

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