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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Edna ask Robert go with her the morning after the swim?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) The breaker.
(c) Chênière Caminada.
(d) To visit a voodoo practitioner.

2. What does Madame Ratignolle say about Alcée?
(a) That he is very poor and looking to live off a naive woman.
(b) He has gotten a woman pregnant before and abandoned her.
(c) He has a dreadful reputation.
(d) That he is ill.

3. What does Edna decide to do about Robert?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Avoid him.
(c) Try harder to convince him to go away with her.
(d) Tell her husband she is leaving him for Robert.

4. Who is Adèle Ratignolle?
(a) Léonce Pontellier's mistress.
(b) Robert's fiance.
(c) Edna's friend.
(d) Robert's cousin.

5. What does Adèle Ratignolle do that Edna would not be comfortable doing?
(a) Cries freely in public.
(b) Laughs outrageously loudly.
(c) Wears a bathing suit in public.
(d) Talks about intimate matters to any of her male friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alcée give to Edna?

2. Why does Edna feel regret about her infidelity?

3. By what was Edna taken regarding Léonce before they marry?

4. Why is Edna jealous of Madame Lebrun?

5. What happens when the character looks out from its home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the creature survive and how does it see?

2. What does Madame Ratignolle ask of Edna and what does she think of the pigeon house?

3. How does Léonce Pontellier treat his sunburned wife?

4. Describe the Pontellier family.

5. What does Edna find when she visits Mademoiselle Reisz and how does Edna react?

6. Describe Madame Ratignolle.

7. Who is Robert LeBrun?

8. How does Edna feel about living in the pigeon house?

9. Where does Robert decide to go and how does Edna react?

10. What does the creature finally do?

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