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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. What does Madame Ratignolle tell Edna when Edna returns?
(a) That a fresh catch of fish has just arrived.
(b) That Étienne was naughty.
(c) That Étienne is quite ill.
(d) That Léonce will be delayed getting back.

2. Why is Edna's family opposed to marriage to Léonce?
(a) He is from Mexico.
(b) He has no family in the United States.
(c) He is Catholic.
(d) He is poor.

3. What does Madame Ratignolle ask Robert to do?
(a) Leave the island.
(b) Leave the city.
(c) Leave Edna alone.
(d) Go to New Orleans and get her some children's toys.

4. What does the character experience?
(a) Hunger, thirst and danger.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Exhilaration.
(d) Ascension.

5. How many children does Edna have?
(a) 4.
(b) 0.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mildred want the farm worker who retrieves her papers to take her?

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

3. Why does Léonce scold Edna?

4. On what day does Edna receive visitors at her home?

5. What does Robert say forced him to go to Mexico?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what do Edna and her father argue and what does her father say to Léonce?

2. Why do Edna and her husband argue and what does each do?

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

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

5. Describe Mildred's first meeting with the "farm worker."

6. Why does Edna decide to move into a smaller house and what does the staff call the house?

7. Describe Edna's last swim.

8. Who is Robert LeBrun?

9. How does Léonce Pontellier treat his sunburned wife?

10. What does Madame worry about concerning Robert and Edna?

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