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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Louise die?
(a) As a passenger in the train wreck.
(b) She does not die.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Her husband kills her when he learns she celebrated his passing.

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

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

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

10. Who adopts Désirée?
(a) No one.
(b) The Valmondé family.
(c) Her mother's older sister and her husband.
(d) Her father's parents.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what is Mrs. Sommers focused?

2. What does Elodie take from Everson?

3. What does Elodie not tell Gabriel?

4. What makes Athénaïse decide to return to Cazeau?

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

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