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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 Edna realize about herself after learning of Robert's departure?
(a) She has always wanted to go to Mexico.
(b) She might just take off and join him .
(c) She does not like Robert as much as she thought.
(d) She is experiencing a real infatuation.

2. Rather than paint, what does Mr. Pontellier think his wife should be doing?
(a) Going back to school
(b) Looking after the children and household
(c) Getting a job
(d) Volunteering at a hospital

3. What kind of woman is Edna not?
(a) A mother-woman
(b) A career woman
(c) A crazy woman
(d) A mean woman

4. How soon will Robert depart?
(a) Within minutes
(b) That night
(c) In a fortnight
(d) The next day

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Robert at Grande Isle?

2. Once Mr. Pontellier realizes Edna will not come to bed, what does he do?

3. What happens on Tuesdays in the Pontellier home?

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

5. What does Mariequita think of Robert and Edna?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doe Edna feel so comfortable in Madame Antoine's house right away?

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

3. What is the first impression the author gives of Mrs. Pontellier?

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

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

6. Describe Edna's feelings when she learns Robert is leaving for Mexico.

7. Mrs. Pontellier and Madame Ratignolle have a heated argument in which Edna says she would be willing to give up anything for her children except for herself. What does she mean by this? And why does it upset Madame Ratignolle so much?

8. What do we learn is different about Mrs. Pontellier from the other wives who summer at the Grande Isle?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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