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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 Mr. Sublet want the 'Cadian man to do?
(a) Some research.
(b) Some legal work.
(c) Pose for a picture.
(d) Build a new home for Mr. Sublet.

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

3. What are Elodie and Gabriel playing?
(a) Chess.
(b) Cribbage.
(c) Checkers.
(d) Croquet.

4. What disgusts Gabriel?
(a) That he killed Elodie.
(b) That he killed a man.
(c) What Elodie has done.
(d) That his fiance sleeps with another man.

5. How does Gabriel die?
(a) Suicide.
(b) He does not die.
(c) A fall from his horse.
(d) A mob.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Calixta allow to shelter in her home?

2. Who unnerves Mrs. Baroda?

3. What does Alcée write to his wife?

4. What does Armand want Désirée to do?

5. Who is the successful planter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elodie learn while at a wedding reception?

2. What does Mr. Sublet ask Evariste Bonamour and what Sublet give Evariste?

3. How does Louise Mallard respond to the news?

4. How does Mrs. Sommers spend her fifteen dollars?

5. How does Mrs. Baroda's feelings alter towards Gouvernail and what does she do?

6. How does Athénaïse develop a relationship with Gouvernail?

7. What does Mrs. Sommers receive and what does she plan to do with it?

8. What does Clarisse do when she learns Alcée is going to see Calixta and why does she do what she does?

9. How does Mrs. Baroda feel towards Gourvernail at the opening of the story, and what does she do as a result?

10. What does Louise Mallard learn and how does she learn of it?

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