The Awakening, and Selected Stories Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Awakening, and Selected Stories Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert help Edna do?
(a) Make tea.
(b) Fold clean clothes.
(c) Put Étienne to bed.
(d) Put up the dinner dishes.

2. Who is at Mademoiselle Reisz's home when Edna goes for a visit?
(a) Léonce.
(b) Victor.
(c) Robert.
(d) No one; she is not home.

3. What does Léonce write to Edna?
(a) He wants a divorce.
(b) That he disapproves of her move.
(c) He orders her to move back to his home.
(d) That he is worried about the children.

4. What does Madame Ratignolle say about Alcée?
(a) He has gotten a woman pregnant before and abandoned her.
(b) He has a dreadful reputation.
(c) That he is very poor and looking to live off a naive woman.
(d) That he is ill.

5. Who pledges devotion to Edna in a letter?
(a) Robert.
(b) No one.
(c) Alcée.
(d) Her husband.

6. Why does Robert say Edna is cruel?
(a) For calling him a Mama's boy.
(b) For pressuring him into saying things he should not.
(c) For letting him see her with Alcée.
(d) For calling him impotent.

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

8. How does Edna feel she is acting?
(a) On impulse.
(b) Foolish.
(c) Brave.
(d) Childish.

9. Who is Mildred Orme?
(a) A veterinarian.
(b) A matronly woman with 6 children.
(c) A fairy.
(d) A scholarly, twenty-year-old woman, who is staying at a country farm.

10. Where does Edna ask Robert go with her the morning after the swim?
(a) The breaker.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) To visit a voodoo practitioner.
(d) Chênière Caminada.

11. What vision does Edna have of herself as a little girl?
(a) Falling into an icy pond.
(b) Being hit by a man in a carriage.
(c) Walking in a field of tall grass.
(d) Riding on the train.

12. How does the character seem?
(a) Frustrated.
(b) Agitated.
(c) Angry.
(d) Content.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main character in this story?

2. In what faith is Edna raised?

3. What does Edna begin attending?

4. About what do Léonce Pontellier and Edna often argue?

5. For what does Edna yearn?

(see the answer keys)

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