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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. Why does Robert take Edna to Madame Antoine's home?
(a) To introduce her to Madame Antoine.
(b) To seduce her.
(c) Edna is feeling ill.
(d) To have Edna's portrait drawn.

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

3. About what do Léonce Pontellier and Edna often argue?
(a) That she is working too hard.
(b) That she neglects the children.
(c) That she will not learn to speak Creole French.
(d) That she is not careful with her health.

4. What is one childhood crush Edna remembers?
(a) On a farmer boy.
(b) On a cavalry officer.
(c) On a school teacher.
(d) On a minister.

5. What does Robert say forced him to go to Mexico?
(a) His love for Edna.
(b) Pressure from his brother.
(c) Pressure from his mother.
(d) Pressure from Edna's husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert help Edna do?

2. For what does Edna yearn?

3. Of what does Edna remind Robert?

4. How is Edna going to pay for her move?

5. Whose picture did Edna keep when she is a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Madame Ratignolle.

2. What happens when Edna visits Madame Lebrun?

3. What does Robert confess when he and Edna go back to the pigeon house and what is Edna's response?

4. What does Mademoiselle Reisz show and tell Edna concerning Robert?

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

6. What is the creature's situation like at the opening of the story?

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

8. How is Edna's life changing?

9. What does the letter say that Mildred receives from her family?

10. What happens when Mr. Pontellier arrives home at eleven?

(see the answer keys)

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