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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Emancipation: A Life Fable.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Léonce Pontellier send Edna after he returns to the city?
(a) Money.
(b) Divorce papers.
(c) A letter with a poem.
(d) A gift.

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

3. About what do Léonce Pontellier and Edna often argue?
(a) That she is working too hard.
(b) That she is not careful with her health.
(c) That she neglects the children.
(d) That she will not learn to speak Creole French.

4. Who is Victor with when Edna arrives at Grand Isle?
(a) Mariequita.
(b) No one.
(c) Robert.
(d) His mother.

5. How is Edna going to pay for her move?
(a) With money from her mother's estate and selling of her art.
(b) Money her husband gives her.
(c) Money from Robert.
(d) Money from Alcée.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what day does Edna receive visitors at her home?

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

4. Though Edna has fallen from her high position in society, what does she feel has improved?

5. What does Dr. Mandelet say he will do?

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