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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. Why does Mr. Pontellier not try to persuade Edna to go to the wedding?
(a) He thinks it will get him out of going as well.
(b) He is following the doctor's advice to let her do as she likes.
(c) He thinks she needs to stay back and look after the house.
(d) He does not want to bring her.

2. Why does Edna have to suddenly leave Robert?
(a) Alcee is sick and needs her.
(b) Leonce is sick and needs her.
(c) Madame Ratignolle is sick and needs her.
(d) She forgot to pick up something at the market.

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

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

5. Who does Mrs. Highcamp think her daughter would like?
(a) Alcee
(b) Victor
(c) Robert
(d) Leonce

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Doctor Mandelet not bothered by Madame Ratignolle's complaints?

2. Where will Edna move?

3. At the last moment, which two guests do not show up at Edna's dinner party?

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

5. Why does Madame Ratignolle complain to Edna?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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 call her move and dinner party a "coup d'etat"?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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