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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. About what do Mrs. Sommers' neighbors gossip?
(a) About Mrs. Sommers' better days.
(b) About Mrs. Sommers' male visitors.
(c) About Mrs. Sommers' old world family.
(d) About Mrs. Sommers' deceased husband.

4. What does Elodie take from Everson?
(a) His cross.
(b) His watch and money.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His gold teeth.

5. What are Elodie and Gabriel playing?
(a) Chess.
(b) Cribbage.
(c) Checkers.
(d) Croquet.

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

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

8. Who are Bobinôt and Calixta and Alcée Laballière and Clarisse?
(a) Two couples in the story.
(b) Four characters in a fairy tale told to the child in the story.
(c) Four friends.
(d) Four siblings.

9. Who does Alcée flirt with at the ball?
(a) No one.
(b) Marcelle.
(c) Clarisse.
(d) Calixta.

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

11. What does Désirée husband do soon after their first child is born?
(a) Divorces her.
(b) Kills her.
(c) Withdraws his affections.
(d) Sticks by her.

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

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

14. Where did Elizabeth Stock work?
(a) She is unemployed.
(b) At the post office in Stonelift.
(c) She works at the local bank.
(d) She is a baker's helper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gabriel die?

2. Who does Gabriel kill?

3. Where does Athénaïse go when she leaves Cazeau a second time?

4. What is Calixta's response to Bobinôt's question?

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

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