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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 Alcee's kiss with Edna:
(a) It was the kind of kiss a brother gives a sister.
(b) It was cold, unemotional.
(c) It was a flaming torch that kindled desire.
(d) Edna felt like a whore afterward.

2. Who is Edna thinking of when she returns home?
(a) The Colonel
(b) Her sons
(c) Leonce
(d) Robert

3. What does Edna do while her husband is in New York?
(a) She learns needlepoint.
(b) She redecorates the house.
(c) She spends time with Mrs. Highcamp and Alcee Arobin.
(d) She plays card games.

4. Where does Arobin urge Edna to go with him?
(a) The French Quarter
(b) Shell Road
(c) Paris
(d) Bourbon Street

5. Where is Edna at the end of this story?
(a) Having dinner with Victor and Mariequita
(b) On a ship to Mexico
(c) In the ocean, physically too tired to swim back
(d) Back on Esplanade Street, with Leonce

Short Answer Questions

1. What worries Mr. Pontellier about this situation?

2. Why does Edna cry when she listens to Mademoiselle Reisz play the piano?

3. What is Edna's father's reason for coming to town?

4. What did Robert write in his note to Edna?

5. When does Alcee finally say goodnight to Edna?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. Edna tells Mademoiselle Reisz that she is going to move out of her house and that she is in love with Robert. Are either of these actions wise?

5. Why does Edna not want to attend her sister's wedding?

6. Why does Mr. Pontellier talk to Dr. Mandelet about Edna? Why can he not talk to his wife himself?

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

8. Describe how Edna feels once she is truly alone.

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

10. 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?

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