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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Awakening, Chapters 36-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Madame Ratignolle say about Alcée?
(a) He has gotten a woman pregnant before and abandoned her.
(b) That he is very poor and looking to live off a naive woman.
(c) He has a dreadful reputation.
(d) That he is ill.

2. What does Robert say forced him to go to Mexico?
(a) His love for Edna.
(b) Pressure from Edna's husband.
(c) Pressure from his mother.
(d) Pressure from his brother.

3. For what does Edna yearn?
(a) A man who loves her for herself.
(b) Another child.
(c) Independence.
(d) She does not know.

4. What depresses Edna when she visits Madam Ratignolle?
(a) Getting out and seeing women moving freely on the streets.
(b) Seeing how happy Madam Ratignolle's children are.
(c) Nothing; her visits with Madam Ratignolle always cheer her.
(d) Seeing Madam Ratignolle happy with her husband.

5. Why does Edna cry after Robert leaves?
(a) She learns her husband is having an affair.
(b) She doesn't want to go back to the city.
(c) Her husband wants a divorce.
(d) She just then realizes how infatuated she is with him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Robert tell Edna he is going?

3. What habit does Robert do every summer?

4. What is the only thing that makes Edna happy since Robert left?

5. What is the opening setting for the novelette The Awakening?

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