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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do Calixta and Alcée do?
(a) Fight.
(b) Pick berries.
(c) Make love.
(d) Play chess.
2. Who has just been killed in a railroad accident?
(a) Louise.
(b) Brently.
(c) No one.
(d) Josephine.
3. Where does the doctor advise Elizabeth to spend the winter?
(a) In Greece.
(b) In the South.
(c) In Mexico.
(d) In the dry Southwest.
4. Who are Bobinôt and Calixta and Alcée Laballière and Clarisse?
(a) Four friends.
(b) Four characters in a fairy tale told to the child in the story.
(c) Four siblings.
(d) Two couples in the story.
5. Who does Alcée flirt with at the ball?
(a) Marcelle.
(b) Calixta.
(c) No one.
(d) Clarisse.
6. What does Clarisse not miss?
(a) The heat of New Orleans.
(b) The injustice of the social system in the South.
(c) Intimacy with Alcée.
(d) Her days of social obligations.
7. Of what is Cazeau reminded when he goes to fetch his wife?
(a) A slave his father once had to retrieve.
(b) The way his friends laughed when he told them who he planned to marry.
(c) Going to market.
(d) A saying his mother told him on his wedding day.
8. How does Gabriel die?
(a) A mob.
(b) A fall from his horse.
(c) He does not die.
(d) Suicide.
9. What is Louise imagining in her room?
(a) What her husband is doing in heaven.
(b) How her brother must have suffered before dying.
(c) A future of endless possibilities.
(d) What her husband is doing in hell.
10. What makes Athénaïse decide to return to Cazeau?
(a) She has no money.
(b) She is in trouble with some shady characters.
(c) She learns she is pregnant.
(d) She is lonely.
11. Why does Mrs. Baroda tell her husband she is going to visit some relatives?
(a) To avoid being around Gouvernail.
(b) There is a family wedding.
(c) One of them is ill.
(d) To help with the cotton picking.
12. What does Mrs. Baroda say about her husband wanting Gouvernail for a second visit?
(a) She is frightened.
(b) She is indifferent.
(c) She objects.
(d) She thinks is it a great idea.
13. What does Mr. Sublet want the 'Cadian man to do?
(a) Some research.
(b) Build a new home for Mr. Sublet.
(c) Pose for a picture.
(d) Some legal work.
14. Upon what is Mrs. Sommers focused?
(a) The cruel gossip.
(b) Finding a husband.
(c) Finding a job.
(d) The needs of her children.
15. How does Louise die?
(a) She does not die.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) Her husband kills her when he learns she celebrated his passing.
(d) As a passenger in the train wreck.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is Elizabeth fired from her job?
2. About what do Mrs. Sommers' neighbors gossip?
3. Where does Mr. Brightman go for a meeting?
4. What does Désirée do with herself and her baby?
5. How much advance payment does Sublet give the 'Cadian man?
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