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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 grow up?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Chicago.

2. What depresses Edna when she visits Madam Ratignolle?
(a) Seeing how happy Madam Ratignolle's children are.
(b) Seeing Madam Ratignolle happy with her husband.
(c) Nothing; her visits with Madam Ratignolle always cheer her.
(d) Getting out and seeing women moving freely on the streets.

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

4. How does the character respond to the accident?
(a) At first it is afraid.
(b) It is happy.
(c) It is cold.
(d) It dies.

5. Whose wedding does Edna refuse to attend?
(a) Léonce's sister's.
(b) Léonce's brother's.
(c) Robert's.
(d) Edna's sister's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing that makes Edna happy since Robert left?

2. What does Madame Ratignolle tell Edna when Edna returns?

3. Why does Robert take Edna to Madame Antoine's home?

4. Who does Edna visit in Chapter 21?

5. What will Edna do before she moves?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens between Robert and Edna by the end of Chapter 35?

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

4. How does Edna plan to pay for her move?

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

6. Who is Robert LeBrun?

7. What is Edna's life like in New Orleans?

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

9. What does Edna start attending?

10. Describe Edna's last swim.

(see the answer keys)

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