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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Respectable Woman.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the character respond to the accident?
(a) It is happy.
(b) It dies.
(c) It is cold.
(d) At first it is afraid.

3. What does Bobinôt want of Calixta?
(a) To borrow money.
(b) To marry her.
(c) To borrow her horse.
(d) For her to bake him a cake.

4. Who adopts Désirée?
(a) The Valmondé family.
(b) No one.
(c) Her mother's older sister and her husband.
(d) Her father's parents.

5. What is Edna thinking about as she returns home from the Ratignolle home?
(a) How bad childbirth can be.
(b) What she is supposed to remember.
(c) Whether her husband will let her see her children if she runs off with Robert.
(d) What she wants to take with her when she leaves with Robert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who pledges devotion to Edna in a letter?

2. Who is Gouvernail?

3. Who is Adèle Ratignolle?

4. For whom does Mr. Sublet ask when he visits Bayou Têche?

5. For what does Edna yearn?

(see the answer key)

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