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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 is Louise feeling relieved?
(a) Because she is a free woman.
(b) She is not relieved.
(c) Because her father survives the train accident.
(d) Because her brother survives the accident.

2. Why is Elizabeth fired from her job?
(a) Because she is surly.
(b) For doing unauthorized actions.
(c) Because she is late almost every day.
(d) Because she steals from her employer.

3. What does Evariste ask to be identified as?
(a) A rogue.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A 'Cadian.
(d) A gentleman.

4. What does Clarisse not miss?
(a) The injustice of the social system in the South.
(b) Intimacy with Alcée.
(c) Her days of social obligations.
(d) The heat of New Orleans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mr. Brightman go for a meeting?

2. Who has just been killed in a railroad accident?

3. What are Elodie and Gabriel playing?

4. What does Elodie not tell Gabriel?

5. What makes Athénaïse decide to return to Cazeau?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Elizabeth help Mr. Brightman?

2. How does Louise Mallard respond to the news?

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

4. Why does Elizabeth lose her job at the post office?

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

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

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

8. Why does Armand withdraw from Désirée?

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

10. What does Désirée do after Armand tells her to leave?

(see the answer keys)

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