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

2. Where will Edna move?
(a) A little house around the corner
(b) Her mother-in-law's house in the countryside
(c) A totally different city
(d) Another grand house on the other side of town

3. Leonce tells Edna he will return in March after which they will go where?
(a) California
(b) Abroad
(c) To Asia
(d) To Africa

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

5. Who suddenly appears before Victor and Mariequita?
(a) Madame Lebrun
(b) Mrs. Highcamp
(c) Mrs. Pontellier
(d) Alcee Arobin

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Edna at the end of this story?

2. Why did Robert leave Mexico?

3. Edna tells Robert that he:

4. Why does Edna have to suddenly leave Robert?

5. Who does Mr. Pontellier drop in to visit in town one morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Leonce at all worried about the breakup of his marriage emotionally? Is he making arrangements to hide his real feelings?

2. Why does Edna need to know so much about Robert's tobacco pouch?

3. Why does the photo of Alcee Arobin upset Robert so much when he goes back to the pigeon-house with her?

4. Why does Edna call her move and dinner party a "coup d'etat"?

5. Are Robert Lebrun and Alcee Arobin alike? Or are they dramatically different from one another?

6. Why did Robert not write to Edna from Mexico?

7. Is the dinner party a grand affair?

8. After her disappointing evening with Robert, what does Edna initially do?

9. Edna goes to Mademoiselle Reisz's for refuge, as well as to find out the latest news about Robert. What happens when she is at Mademoiselle Reisz's alone, waiting for the pianist, and Robert shows up out of the blue?

10. What do you think happens to Edna? Does she die in the ocean? Does she make it back?

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