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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. When Edna sees Robert at the cafe, she accuses him of being the embodiment of:
(a) Generosity
(b) Cruelty
(c) Selfishness
(d) Beauty

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

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

4. According to Adele, what is Alcee's reputation?
(a) Dreadful
(b) Respectable
(c) Not really known
(d) Very good

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mrs. Highcamp think her daughter would like?

2. What announcement does Edna make at Mademoiselle Reisz's?

3. Who will pay for Edna's expensive dinner party?

4. What is a griffe?

5. Who interrupts Edna's and Robert's meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. Did the author give any warning that this love affair might not end happily?

2. Why does Mademoiselle Reisz play the Chopin piece? Is this an instance of foreshadowing?

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

4. Do you think Edna's feelings were Robert were genuine?

5. Is the dinner party a grand affair?

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

7. Why does Edna feel strong and confident in the pigeon-house?

8. 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?

9. In addition to her move, what occasion is the group celebrating?

10. Is the Colonel, Edna's father, right to think that if she and her husband spent more time together in the evenings at home, they would have a stronger marriage?

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