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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Awakening, Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Léonce Pontellier concerned?
(a) His mother is ill.
(b) His latest business venture is failing.
(c) His wife has become badly sunburned.
(d) His father is ill.

2. Who is Adèle Ratignolle?
(a) Léonce Pontellier's mistress.
(b) Robert's cousin.
(c) Robert's fiance.
(d) Edna's friend.

3. Why does Edna cry after Robert leaves?
(a) Her husband wants a divorce.
(b) She just then realizes how infatuated she is with him.
(c) She learns her husband is having an affair.
(d) She doesn't want to go back to the city.

4. What is the opening setting for the novelette The Awakening?
(a) Grand Isle, Louisiana.
(b) Charleston, South Carolina.
(c) Mobile, Alabama.
(d) Grand Isle, Georgia.

5. What does Léonce think he has learned by Edna's interaction with her father?
(a) That Edna is spoiled by her father.
(b) That she controls her father.
(c) That she has a deep family attachment he had not noticed before.
(d) That she is scared of her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edna begin attending?

2. Why is Edna's family opposed to marriage to Léonce?

3. What does Mr. Pontellier learn one week about Edna's visitation day?

4. What does Léonce Pontellier send Edna after he returns to the city?

5. Why is Edna jealous of Madame Lebrun?

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