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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What warms the character?
(a) A lamp.
(b) A sunbeam.
(c) A fire.
(d) A candle.

2. What does the character keep doing?
(a) Looking further and further into the outside world.
(b) Falling asleep.
(c) Crying.
(d) Crawling under its blankets.

3. Whose picture did Edna keep when she is a child?
(a) A famous playwright.
(b) A famous actor.
(c) Her brother's best friend.
(d) One she paints of a boy next door.

4. Who is Dr. Mandelet?
(a) A good psychiatrist.
(b) A voodoo practitioner.
(c) Mr. Pontellier's physician and frirend.
(d) Robert's physician.

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

6. What has Robert been teaching Edna?
(a) How to fish.
(b) How to swim.
(c) How to play the recorder.
(d) How to make gumbo stew.

7. How does Edna speak to her husband?
(a) Sensually.
(b) Sharply.
(c) Sweetly.
(d) She refuses to speak to him at all.

8. Who stays behind after the dinner party?
(a) Dr. Mandelet.
(b) Victor.
(c) Robert.
(d) Alcée.

9. Who is Mademoiselle Reisz?
(a) A cellist.
(b) A young girl who Robert loves.
(c) A pianist.
(d) The wife of another guest at the cottages.

10. What does the character experience?
(a) Exhilaration.
(b) Hunger, thirst and danger.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Ascension.

11. What is the main character in this story?
(a) A wizard.
(b) A dragonfly.
(c) An animal.
(d) A bird.

12. What is Edna thinking about as she returns home from the Ratignolle home?
(a) What she wants to take with her when she leaves with Robert.
(b) What she is supposed to remember.
(c) How bad childbirth can be.
(d) Whether her husband will let her see her children if she runs off with Robert.

13. Why does Robert take Edna to Madame Antoine's home?
(a) To have Edna's portrait drawn.
(b) Edna is feeling ill.
(c) To introduce her to Madame Antoine.
(d) To seduce her.

14. On what day does Edna receive visitors at her home?
(a) Mondays.
(b) Saturdays.
(c) Tuesdays.
(d) Wednesdays.

15. How does the character respond to the accident?
(a) It is cold.
(b) At first it is afraid.
(c) It is happy.
(d) It dies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Léonce scold Edna?

3. How many children does Edna have?

4. What does Edna promise Madame Ratignolle?

5. What does Mademoiselle Reisz play on the piano?

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