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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mrs. Pontellier talks about:
(a) Her husband's business, their house on Esplanade Street
(b) Her father's Mississippi plantation, Kentucky, and her sister's engagement
(c) Her children
(d) The weather

2. Why does Edna choose to remain in the hammock?
(a) She likes the salty air.
(b) She thinks it may make Leonce romantic.
(c) She feels that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant.
(d) She has always preferred hammocks to beds.

3. According to Edna, her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an:
(a) Accident
(b) Act of convenience
(c) Act of rebellion
(d) Amiable thing to do

4. When talking to both Adele and Edna, Robert is jovial and jokes often. Is he this way when alone with Edna?
(a) It depends on whether her husband is in the room.
(b) No, he is not.
(c) Yes, he is.
(d) The author gives few clues as to how he behaves when alone with Edna.

5. What has Robert done pretty much every summer at Grande Isle?
(a) He has built a house.
(b) He would devote himself to one married woman.
(c) Gone fishing
(d) He has written a novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Madame Lebrun remarks that sometimes she thinks Mrs. Pontellier is:

2. Edna thinks her husband's bad humor is because of:

3. What starts to change in Edna this summer at Grande Isle?

4. What does Edna call the piece she often hears Mademoiselle Reisz play?

5. Where will Montel be next month?

(see the answer key)

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