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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Alone with Edna, what does Alcee show her?
2. Who will pay for Edna's expensive dinner party?
3. What does the doctor explain about women to Mr. Pontellier?
4. Who does Mr. Pontellier discuss with the doctor?
5. What does Edna want to do before dinner?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Mr. Pontellier talk to Dr. Mandelet about Edna? Why can he not talk to his wife himself?
2. Describe how Edna feels once she is truly alone.
3. Why does Edna enjoy horse racing so much?
4. Do you think Edna's feelings were Robert were genuine?
5. Why does Edna need to know so much about Robert's tobacco pouch?
6. Once Edna has decided to move, does she want to discuss it with Leonce?
7. Edna and Mademoiselle Reisz have a spirited discussion when they meet again. Describe the things they say to one another. Is this a pair of women who really like each other?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. Why does Edna not want to attend her sister's wedding?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 30, when Edna has her guests over for her coup d'etat dinner party, there is a moment when she retreats into her own thoughts. "But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition. It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords walled. There came over her the acute longing which always summoned into her spiritual vision the presence of the beloved one, overpowering her at once with a sense of the unattainable."
What does this passage mean? What does is say about Edna at this point in her life?
Essay Topic 2
As the story progresses, Edna chooses independence over marriage. Did she do the right thing? What, if anything, did she lose? What did she gain?
Essay Topic 3
From the beginning the author portrays Leonce Pontellier in a negative light. But is he a truly a bad or evil person? Or is he just being the typical traditional southern man? Does he believe that he is being unfair or mean toward Edna?
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