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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Victor take from Mrs. Highcamp?
(a) Her cane
(b) Her purse
(c) Her skirt
(d) Her scarf

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

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

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

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

10. Who made the tobacco pouch that Robert carries?
(a) A Vera Cruz girl
(b) He made it.
(c) His mother
(d) Mariequita

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

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

13. At the last moment, which two guests do not show up at Edna's dinner party?
(a) Leonce and Dr. Mandelet
(b) Etienne and Raoul
(c) Adele Ratignolle and Madame Lebrun
(d) The Colonel and her sister

14. Does Robert know that Edna is reading his letters to Mademoiselle Reisz?
(a) It is possible but not clear
(b) Yes but he does not seem to care
(c) No, or he would stop writing
(d) Yes, that is why he keeps writing

15. How does Edna feel once her father and husband are gone?
(a) She is lonely.
(b) She is lost as to how to occupy herself.
(c) She is happy to be alone and feels free.
(d) She is miserable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Edna not want to go abroad?

2. Why is Doctor Mandelet not bothered by Madame Ratignolle's complaints?

3. Who is Alcee Arobin?

4. What does Edna promise before leaving?

5. Who arrives at Mademoiselle Reisz's while Edna waits there alone?

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