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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Léonce think he has learned by Edna's interaction with her father?
(a) That she controls her father.
(b) That she has a deep family attachment he had not noticed before.
(c) That she is scared of her father.
(d) That Edna is spoiled by her father.

2. What does Mr. Pontellier find that surprises him when he returns to the cottage?
(a) Edna is still awake.
(b) Edna is asleep in the children's room.
(c) Edna is in the hammock.
(d) Edna is not home.

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

4. How does Victor upset Edna at the dinner party?
(a) He tells Edna that Mr. Pontellier is not in New York, but rather at his mistress's house in New Orleans.
(b) He tells Edna Robert has married a Spanish woman.
(c) He tells Edna Robert has married an Italian woman.
(d) He sings a song Robert used to sing.

5. What happens by accident one day?
(a) The cage door is left open.
(b) The fire gets too hot.
(c) The lamp burns out.
(d) The sun does not shine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edna do that terrifies her?

2. Of what does Edna remind Robert?

3. Who adopts Désirée?

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

5. What does Léonce write to Edna?

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