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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bobinôt want of Calixta?
(a) To marry her.
(b) For her to bake him a cake.
(c) To borrow money.
(d) To borrow her horse.

2. How much advance payment does Sublet give the 'Cadian man?
(a) 10 silver dollars.
(b) 20 gold pieces.
(c) Nothing.
(d) 2 silver dollars.

3. Where are Bobinôt and his son, four-year-old Bibi, waiting out a storm?
(a) Under a rock ledge.
(b) At Friedheimer's store.
(c) In a barn.
(d) In a sea cave.

4. What does Elodie not tell Gabriel?
(a) That Everson talks to the sheriff.
(b) That a knife is in his other coat.
(c) That Everson comes to her and he is not dead.
(d) That she robs Everson.

5. What does Désirée do with herself and her baby?
(a) Kills herself and her baby.
(b) Appeals to the priest to intervene.
(c) Kills Armand.
(d) Goes to live with her parents.

6. Of what is Cazeau reminded when he goes to fetch his wife?
(a) The way his friends laughed when he told them who he planned to marry.
(b) Going to market.
(c) A saying his mother told him on his wedding day.
(d) A slave his father once had to retrieve.

7. Who is dead at the opening of the story?
(a) Elizabeth Stock's sister.
(b) Elizabeth Stock's father.
(c) Elizabeth Stock.
(d) Elizabeth Stock's mother.

8. Who does Evariste save?
(a) Mr. Sublet.
(b) Martinette.
(c) Mr. Sublet's son.
(d) No one.

9. Where does Mr. Brightman go for a meeting?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Washington, D. C.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Chicago.

10. Who does Calixta allow to shelter in her home?
(a) Bobinôt.
(b) Gouvernail.
(c) Alcée Laballière.
(d) A hobo.

11. What does Mrs. Sommers wish as she is riding home on the bus?
(a) That her children would disappear.
(b) That the ride would never end.
(c) That she had bought more chocolate for the children.
(d) That her husband would return to her.

12. What disgusts Gabriel?
(a) What Elodie has done.
(b) That he killed a man.
(c) That his fiance sleeps with another man.
(d) That he killed Elodie.

13. What does Alcée write to his wife?
(a) That she should come home immediately.
(b) That he is ill.
(c) That she should stay longer in Biloxi if she wants.
(d) That he wants a divorce.

14. Who has just been killed in a railroad accident?
(a) Brently.
(b) No one.
(c) Louise.
(d) Josephine.

15. Why is Elizabeth fired from her job?
(a) Because she steals from her employer.
(b) Because she is late almost every day.
(c) Because she is surly.
(d) For doing unauthorized actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Désirée husband do soon after their first child is born?

2. What does Mrs. Baroda say about her husband wanting Gouvernail for a second visit?

3. Where does Mrs. Sommers go after the store?

4. What is the reason Cazeau tells his wife that he married her?

5. How does Mrs. Baroda feel when she speaks to Gouvernail?

(see the answer keys)

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