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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Désirée's Baby.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Edna speak to her husband?
(a) She refuses to speak to him at all.
(b) Sweetly.
(c) Sharply.
(d) Sensually.

2. About what does Edna ask Robert concerning letters?
(a) Why all his letters were so prosaic.
(b) She doesn't ask him about his letters.
(c) Why he did not write her.
(d) Why he sent more letters to his mother than to her.

3. What does Edna promise Madame Ratignolle?
(a) That Edna will not invite men into her home unless someone is present.
(b) That Edna will not have an affair until she is sure.
(c) That Edna will attend Madame Ratignolle when the baby comes.
(d) That Edna will reconsider the move.

4. Who is Mildred Orme?
(a) A veterinarian.
(b) A fairy.
(c) A matronly woman with 6 children.
(d) A scholarly, twenty-year-old woman, who is staying at a country farm.

5. Who pledges devotion to Edna in a letter?
(a) Alcée.
(b) No one.
(c) Robert.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edna begin attending?

2. What does Robert help Edna do?

3. What does Léonce think he has learned by Edna's interaction with her father?

4. Who stays behind after the dinner party?

5. What does Mildred decide to do?

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