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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Awakening, Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Where does Edna grow up?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Kentucky.

3. Why is Edna's family opposed to marriage to Léonce?
(a) He is poor.
(b) He has no family in the United States.
(c) He is from Mexico.
(d) He is Catholic.

4. What does Adèle Ratignolle do that Edna would not be comfortable doing?
(a) Cries freely in public.
(b) Wears a bathing suit in public.
(c) Laughs outrageously loudly.
(d) Talks about intimate matters to any of her male friends.

5. About what does Edna argue with her father?
(a) Having an abortion.
(b) Attending her sister's wedding.
(c) Traveling to New York at the time of the wedding.
(d) Visiting her childhood male friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vision does Edna have of herself as a little girl?

2. What does Edna begin attending?

3. Where do the Pontelliers live in the non-summer months?

4. Why does Léonce scold Edna?

5. Who is Dr. Mandelet?

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