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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What starts to change in Edna this summer at Grande Isle?
2. What has Robert done pretty much every summer at Grande Isle?
3. In retrospect, how does Edna feel about stomping on her wedding ring?
4. What does Madame Ratignolle mean when she talks about her condition?
5. What does Madame Ratignolle think of the Mexicans?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do you think the author means when she says Edna was beginning to understand her place in the universe as a woman and as a human being?
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. In Chapter 11, Edna defies her husband. Is she victorious?
4. Despite growing closer to Adele, why does Edna still not reveal her thoughts to Adele?
5. Given all of the time and attention and affection from Robert and now his sudden departure, what kind of person is he? Do you think he is different from the man you first read about? Has he been deceptive? Is he fearful?
6. What is it about the ocean that emboldens Edna?
7. Robert talks about his mother, Mrs. Lebrun. What does his mother do at the Grande Isle?
8. Why do you think Mr. Pontellier is so enraged at his wife when he thinks Raoul has a fever?
9. What do we learn is different about Mrs. Pontellier from the other wives who summer at the Grande Isle?
10. What is the first thing that Edna wonders after she wakes up at Madame Antoine's?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 30, when Edna has her guests over for her coup d'etat dinner party, there is a moment when she retreats into her own thoughts. "But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition. It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords walled. There came over her the acute longing which always summoned into her spiritual vision the presence of the beloved one, overpowering her at once with a sense of the unattainable."
What does this passage mean? What does is say about Edna at this point in her life?
Essay Topic 2
While on Grande Isle, Edna says she could never give herself for her children. She could give just about anything such as possessions and money, but not herself. What did she mean by that?
Essay Topic 3
How would you characterize this novel? Is it a piece of literary romanticism? Realism? Naturalism? Why?
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