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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who is Mademoiselle Reisz surprised to see at her doorstep?
(a) Victor
(b) Edna
(c) Adele
(d) Robert

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. Most of all, what did Edna gain?
(a) A greater understanding of life
(b) A better sense of what men are really like
(c) A new lover
(d) An understanding of what married women feel when they are adulterous

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Edna finally admit to Mademoiselle Reisz?
(a) That she is not in love with anyone and wants to be alone
(b) That she does not love Leonce
(c) That she is in love with Alcee
(d) That she is in love with Robert

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

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

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

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Edna tell Victor to stop singing?

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

3. What explanation does Robert give for not writing to Edna?

4. What is her overwhelming feeling after kissing Alcee?

5. Describe Alcee's kiss with Edna:

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