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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mrs. Baroda say about her husband wanting Gouvernail for a second visit?
(a) She is frightened.
(b) She thinks is it a great idea.
(c) She objects.
(d) She is indifferent.

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

4. What do Calixta and Alcée do?
(a) Make love.
(b) Play chess.
(c) Pick berries.
(d) Fight.

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

6. Who has a weak heart?
(a) Josephine.
(b) Brently.
(c) John.
(d) Louise.

7. What frightens Calixta?
(a) Bobinôt is late.
(b) Lightening strikes the house.
(c) The hobo starts acting strange.
(d) Lightning striking a tree.

8. Why does Désirée's husband think she is not white?
(a) He has no reason; just an instinctive feeling.
(b) She has habits that are like negroes.
(c) Her baby is not white.
(d) Her grandfather is dark skinned.

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

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

11. Who unnerves Mrs. Baroda?
(a) Her cook.
(b) Gourvernail.
(c) Her maid.
(d) Gaston.

12. What does the postcard say that Elizabeth Stock read?
(a) It has something written in code that she cannot read.
(b) It is about the weather in Greece.
(c) It predicts a change in the economic future.
(d) It is about an urgent meeting the next day.

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

14. What does Armand's mother say in a letter to Armand's father?
(a) That she is black.
(b) That she does not want Armand.
(c) That she hates her husband.
(d) That she had a daughter she puts up for adoption.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Alcée flirt with at the ball?

2. What does Elodie take from Everson?

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

4. Who does Evariste save?

5. What makes Athénaïse decide to return to Cazeau?

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