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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Edna decide to do about Robert?
(a) Avoid him.
(b) Try harder to convince him to go away with her.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Tell her husband she is leaving him for Robert.

2. What does Mr. Pontellier want?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Edna to go to bed with him.
(c) Edna to stay with the children in their room for the night.
(d) Edna to go back to the city with him.

3. About what does Edna argue with her father?
(a) Attending her sister's wedding.
(b) Having an abortion.
(c) Traveling to New York at the time of the wedding.
(d) Visiting her childhood male friend.

4. How does Mildred say she can forgive the man who is too forward?
(a) If he will leave the farm.
(b) She will not ever forgive him.
(c) If he marries her.
(d) If she can forgive herself.

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

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

7. Of what does Robert often daydream?
(a) Finding a wife as pretty as Edna.
(b) Finding a cure for his mother's illness.
(c) Going to make a fortune in Australia.
(d) Going to make his fortune in Mexico.

8. Who does Edna miss at her party?
(a) Madame Lebrun.
(b) Mademoiselle Reisz.
(c) Madame Ratignolle.
(d) Robert.

9. In what faith is Edna raised?
(a) Episcopal.
(b) None.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Presbyterian.

10. What is the first kiss to which Edna has ever responded?
(a) The one Robert gave her during the summer.
(b) She says she has never really responded to any kiss.
(c) The first one from her husband.
(d) One from Alcée.

11. What does the character finally do?
(a) Lets itself die.
(b) Ventures completely into the outside world.
(c) Leaps off the tree and flies.
(d) Seeks vengeance against its master.

12. What does Adèle Ratignolle do that Edna would not be comfortable doing?
(a) Talks about intimate matters to any of her male friends.
(b) Wears a bathing suit in public.
(c) Laughs outrageously loudly.
(d) Cries freely in public.

13. When does Mr. Pontellier arrive at the cottage after the swim?
(a) With Edna.
(b) 3 a.m.
(c) By light the next morning.
(d) Around 11.

14. Though Edna has fallen from her high position in society, what does she feel has improved?
(a) Her confidence.
(b) She has risen in a spiritual sense.
(c) Her ability to judge people more accurately.
(d) She has more angst which offers more art.

15. Why does Léonce scold Edna?
(a) She wants to go back to the summer cottage.
(b) She wants to get out of the house.
(c) He does not scold her.
(d) She wants to go with him to New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the culture of Edna's husband's circle of friends?

2. Where does Léonce think Edna spends too much time?

3. What does Dr. Mandelet ask about Edna?

4. What does Edna do in her distress?

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

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