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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. How does Victor Lebrun describe Edna?
(a) Cute but too thin
(b) Ravishing
(c) Homely
(d) Lacking in fashion taste

2. Alone in her room, what does Edna do?
(a) She cuts up the linens with sharp scissors.
(b) She laughs uncontrollably.
(c) She packs her bags but decides not to leave.
(d) She tears up a handkerchief, stomps on her wedding ring and smashes a vase.

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

4. What effect does music generally have on Edna?
(a) None. She hates music.
(b) It has a way of evoking pictures in her mind.
(c) It has a way of making her anxious.
(d) Sedative. It makes her sleepy.

5. What starts to change in Edna this summer at Grande Isle?
(a) The mantel of reservation that had always enveloped her is loosening.
(b) She longs to have another child.
(c) The idea of living here year-round is gaining its appeal.
(d) The mantel of openness that had always enveloped her is tightening.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Edna realizing about herself?

2. What does Edna do after her conversation with Mademoiselle Reisz?

3. And what does Leonce do when Edna asks him to come to bed?

4. How soon will Robert depart?

5. Where does Robert take Edna to recover?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it about the ocean that emboldens Edna?

2. Does Robert appear in any way to be a "bad boy"? If so, how?

3. Why does Edna cry so hard after her husband scolds her for being what he considers a neglectful mother?

4. Edna and Adele grow close. How are they different?

5. Chopin uses the image of water as a symbol for what?

6. Despite growing closer to Adele, why does Edna still not reveal her thoughts to Adele?

7. Describe Mrs. Pontellier's reaction to hearing Mademoiselle Reisz's performance.

8. Mrs. Pontellier and Madame Ratignolle have a heated argument in which Edna says she would be willing to give up anything for her children except for herself. What does she mean by this? And why does it upset Madame Ratignolle so much?

9. What do you think compelled Edna to jump into the ocean for a swim?

10. If Edna were to tell Leonce how she really felt, would he understand? Would he listen? How would she tell him so it would get through to him?

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