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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Edna think Robert does not love her?
(a) He refuses to see her when she goes to his house.
(b) He has been in town for two days and has not visited her.
(c) He has married.
(d) He is engaged.

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

3. Who does Edna visit in Chapter 21?
(a) Mademoiselle Reisz.
(b) Robert.
(c) Madame Ratignolle.
(d) Madame Lebrun.

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

5. What does Mr. Pontellier want?
(a) Edna to go to bed with him.
(b) Edna to stay with the children in their room for the night.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Edna to go back to the city with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edna promise Madame Ratignolle?

2. What does Robert help Edna do?

3. Why does Désirée's husband think she is not white?

4. How does Edna feel when her children go to stay with their grandmother and Léonce is in New York?

5. Why does Mildred feel ashamed?

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