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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. Why does Edna not want to go abroad?
(a) She does not like foreign travel.
(b) She prefers domestic travel.
(c) She does not want to be forced into doing things she does not want to do anymore.
(d) She cannot stand traveling with Leonce.

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

5. When Edna sees Robert at the cafe, she accuses him of being the embodiment of:
(a) Generosity
(b) Beauty
(c) Cruelty
(d) Selfishness

6. How does Edna react to the note?
(a) She thinks it is a joke and laughs.
(b) She thinks Robert has lost his mind so she goes to sleep.
(c) She is not upset. She knew this would happen.
(d) She is devastated. She does not sleep all night.

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

8. What did Robert write in his note to Edna?
(a) I'm going to Grande Isle. Come with me.
(b) I'm at my mother's. Meet me there.
(c) I love you. Good-by because I love you.
(d) I'm at the store. Back in five minutes.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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 an architect to remodel their house
(c) Instructions to contact a lawyer to start their divorce
(d) Nothing

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On the advice of Dr. Mandelet, what does Leonce decide to do?

2. What announcement does Edna make at Mademoiselle Reisz's?

3. Who does Mrs. Highcamp think her daughter would like?

4. Who is Alcee Arobin?

5. What is Edna's father's reason for coming to town?

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