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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is Calixta's response to Bobinôt's question?
(a) She will bake him a cake if he will introduce her to his brother.
(b) She has said she will lend him her pony, but not her find mare.
(c) She has said no.
(d) She has not yet given a response.

4. What does Désirée husband do soon after their first child is born?
(a) Kills her.
(b) Sticks by her.
(c) Withdraws his affections.
(d) Divorces her.

5. Who saw Robert before he left?
(a) Léonce.
(b) Mademoiselle Reisz.
(c) Madame Ratignolle.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much advance payment does Sublet give the 'Cadian man?

2. Why does Désirée's husband think she is not white?

3. What does Léonce write to Edna?

4. Whose wedding does Edna refuse to attend?

5. Who does Alcée flirt with at the ball?

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