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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Athénaïse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bobinôt want of Calixta?
(a) For her to bake him a cake.
(b) To borrow her horse.
(c) To marry her.
(d) To borrow money.

2. Why does Clarisse follow Alcée to the ball?
(a) To find out if he is really going to the ball.
(b) She does not follow him.
(c) To keep him out of mischief.
(d) Because she loves him.

3. Who are Bobinôt and Calixta and Alcée Laballière and Clarisse?
(a) Four characters in a fairy tale told to the child in the story.
(b) Two couples in the story.
(c) Four friends.
(d) Four siblings.

4. What is the reason Cazeau tells his wife that he married her?
(a) For her money.
(b) His father forced him to do so.
(c) For her political connections.
(d) Because he loves her.

5. Of what is Cazeau reminded when he goes to fetch his wife?
(a) The way his friends laughed when he told them who he planned to marry.
(b) Going to market.
(c) A slave his father once had to retrieve.
(d) A saying his mother told him on his wedding day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Athénaïse go when she leaves Cazeau a second time?

2. What kind of woman does Edna tell Alcée she is?

3. What does Alcée give to Edna?

4. What does Cazeau sense when he embraces Athénaïse?

5. For what does Edna yearn?

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