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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert do while Mrs. Pontellier paints?
(a) He tickles her.
(b) He becomes very silent.
(c) He often rests his head on her arm.
(d) He paints, too.

2. What happens to Edna at the service?
(a) She renounces religion.
(b) She sings too loudly and is told to leave.
(c) She nearly faints and has to leave.
(d) She starts crying and cannot stop.

3. After declining Robert's invitation to go to the beach, how does Edna feel?
(a) She feels relieved, because she cannot swim.
(b) She is glad to be alone and painting
(c) She feels contradictory, regretting she had not gone and glad that she had not.
(d) She feels sad, because it might the last time he ever asks her.

4. Edna wonders how many years she has slept. Robert says:
(a) About half an hour
(b) An entire day
(c) You have slept precisely one hundred years.
(d) You have slept exactly one hundred minutes.

5. What is singing in French and a little Spanish?
(a) A green and yellow iguana
(b) A green and yellow parrot
(c) A fat lady
(d) A fat man

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Edna go with her sketches?

2. Who is the embodiment of every womanly grace and charm?

3. When talking to both Adele and Edna, Robert is jovial and jokes often. Is he this way when alone with Edna?

4. Raoul's condition prompts Mr. Pontellier to accuse his wife of:

5. Does Mrs. Pontellier feel comfortable in the company of Creoles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first thing that Edna wonders after she wakes up at Madame Antoine's?

2. Once Edna has returned to the cottage, she finds herself alone and contemplates her life. Does she feel that she has changed since arriving at the Grande Isle? Does she understand how these changes, however small or dramatic, could be life-changing for her?

3. Why does Adele urge Robert not to pursue Edna?

4. What is the first impression the author gives of Mr. Pontellier?

5. What do you think the author means when she says Edna was beginning to understand her place in the universe as a woman and as a human being?

6. Why does Edna cry so hard after her husband scolds her for being what he considers a neglectful mother?

7. What do you think compelled Edna to jump into the ocean for a swim?

8. The author says that Edna's will had blazed up. However, Leonce has a strong will, too. What is going on in this chapter? How is the Pontellier marriage changing?

9. If Edna were to tell Leonce how she really felt, would he understand? Would he listen? How would she tell him so it would get through to him?

10. What is it about the ocean that emboldens Edna?

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