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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Louise imagining in her room?
(a) How her brother must have suffered before dying.
(b) What her husband is doing in heaven.
(c) What her husband is doing in hell.
(d) A future of endless possibilities.

3. Upon whom does Athénaïse begin to depend for companionship?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Gouvernail.
(c) The laundress.
(d) The cook.

4. Who is the successful planter?
(a) Bobinôt.
(b) Alcée Laballière
(c) Clarisse.
(d) Calixta.

5. What does Cazeau sense when he embraces Athénaïse?
(a) That she has no emotions.
(b) That she is insane.
(c) That she is different.
(d) That she still does not love him.

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

7. What does Aunt Dicey say Sublet will do to the 'Cadian man?
(a) Torture him.
(b) Humiliate him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Make him famous.

8. What does Armand want Désirée to do?
(a) Leave.
(b) Swear to the local priest that she is white.
(c) Stay with him no matter what.
(d) Find out if someone in her ancestry is negro.

9. Upon what is Mrs. Sommers focused?
(a) Finding a husband.
(b) The cruel gossip.
(c) Finding a job.
(d) The needs of her children.

10. What does Evariste ask to be identified as?
(a) A gentleman.
(b) A rogue.
(c) A 'Cadian.
(d) Nothing.

11. Who is Gouvernail?
(a) A college friend of Gaston's.
(b) Mrs. Baroda's sister-in-law.
(c) Gaston's sister.
(d) Mrs. Baroda's sister.

12. Where does Athénaïse go when she leaves Cazeau a second time?
(a) Lafayette.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Charleston.
(d) New Orleans.

13. Why does Mrs. Baroda tell her husband she is going to visit some relatives?
(a) To avoid being around Gouvernail.
(b) To help with the cotton picking.
(c) There is a family wedding.
(d) One of them is ill.

14. Who breaks the news gently to a loved one of the accident?
(a) John.
(b) Josephine.
(c) Brently.
(d) Louise.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing Mrs. Sommers buys at the store with her newly-acquired money?

2. What does the postcard say that Elizabeth Stock read?

3. What frightens Calixta?

4. Who adopts Désirée?

5. Who are Bobinôt and Calixta and Alcée Laballière and Clarisse?

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