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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What habit does Robert do every summer?
(a) Swims to the outer islands.
(b) Goes to Canada to purchase new hunting guns.
(c) Goes into the Rockies hiking.
(d) Attaches himself to a different female guest.

5. Of what does Edna remind Robert?
(a) That he is going to teach her to float on the waves the next morning.
(b) That he is to talk to Mr. Pontellier the next day.
(c) That he is going to Mexico the next morning.
(d) That they spent the entire day together.

6. About what does Edna ask Robert concerning letters?
(a) Why he did not write her.
(b) She doesn't ask him about his letters.
(c) Why all his letters were so prosaic.
(d) Why he sent more letters to his mother than to her.

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

8. Who is Adèle Ratignolle?
(a) Robert's fiance.
(b) Léonce Pontellier's mistress.
(c) Robert's cousin.
(d) Edna's friend.

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

10. Where does Mildred want the farm worker who retrieves her papers to take her?
(a) To church.
(b) To the movies.
(c) To Eurpoe.
(d) To a dance.

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

12. What is the opening setting for the novelette The Awakening?
(a) Grand Isle, Louisiana.
(b) Mobile, Alabama.
(c) Grand Isle, Georgia.
(d) Charleston, South Carolina.

13. Who is Léonce Pontellier?
(a) The resort manager.
(b) The resort owner.
(c) A wealthy, successful businessman.
(d) A friend of Edna's father.

14. What is the culture of Edna's husband's circle of friends?
(a) German-Dutch.
(b) Mexican.
(c) Creole.
(d) Spanish.

15. Who is Madame Lebrun?
(a) A woman who runs an illicit house.
(b) Léonce Pontellier's mother.
(c) A famous pianist.
(d) The woman who rents out the vacation cottages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What vision does Edna have of herself as a little girl?

2. What does Edna say to Robert about Léonce setting her free to marry Robert?

3. What is one childhood crush Edna remembers?

4. In what faith is Edna raised?

5. What does Dr. Mandelet tell Edna?

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