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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Respectable Woman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Clarisse follow Alcée to the ball?
(a) She does not follow him.
(b) Because she loves him.
(c) To keep him out of mischief.
(d) To find out if he is really going to the ball.

2. How does Edna feel when her children go to stay with their grandmother and Léonce is in New York?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Despondent.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Sad.

3. What does Léonce fear about Edna?
(a) That she is unrealistic in her expectations.
(b) That she is pregnant.
(c) That she is having an affair.
(d) That she is becoming unstable.

4. What does the character not perceive?
(a) That it is in a cage.
(b) That it is owned.
(c) Its own self.
(d) The outside world.

5. What does Dr. Mandelet tell Edna?
(a) She can trust him.
(b) She should go to her father's home for a while.
(c) She should stop seeing Robert.
(d) She should have another child to console her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only items Edna takes on her move?

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

3. What does the character experience?

4. Who unnerves Mrs. Baroda?

5. Who adopts Désirée?

(see the answer key)

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