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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 Robert talk a great deal about?
(a) Himself
(b) His mother
(c) Mexico
(d) His brother

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

3. Around what time does Edna finally get up?
(a) Noon the next day
(b) At the same time she always does, seven a.m.
(c) Two in the morning
(d) About one hour before dawn

4. When Mr. Pontellier checks in on his sons, he thinks that Raoul has:
(a) A strange animal with him
(b) Been having nightmares
(c) A fever
(d) A bizarre disease

5. Where is Mr. Pontellier eager to go the next day?
(a) Wall Street, to conduct business
(b) Bourbon Street, the heart of New Orleans
(c) Easy Street, to open a bar
(d) Carondelet Street, the business center of the city

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Edna, her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an:

2. After declining Robert's invitation to go to the beach, how does Edna feel?

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

4. How has Robert's going away affected Edna?

5. Leonce is so dissatisfied with dinner he leaves to:

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Robert want to stay and talk to Edna rather than leave?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Why does Edna throw such a violent fit after Leonce takes off to have dinner at the club?

5. What is the first impression the author gives of Mrs. Pontellier?

6. Do you think Mr. Pontellier is too angry and too demanding when he gets angry at his wife for breaking their Tuesday routine?

7. Why doe Edna feel so comfortable in Madame Antoine's house right away?

8. What do we learn is different about Mrs. Pontellier from the other wives who summer at the Grande Isle?

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

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

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