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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 Mildred decide to do?
(a) Leave the farm.
(b) Apply for a nanny's position.
(c) Go to a convent.
(d) Marry the farmhand.

2. About what does Edna ask Robert concerning letters?
(a) Why he sent more letters to his mother than to her.
(b) She doesn't ask him about his letters.
(c) Why he did not write her.
(d) Why all his letters were so prosaic.

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

4. What does Adèle Ratignolle do that Edna would not be comfortable doing?
(a) Laughs outrageously loudly.
(b) Cries freely in public.
(c) Wears a bathing suit in public.
(d) Talks about intimate matters to any of her male friends.

5. What does Mildred want to try?
(a) Driving a tractor.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Horseback riding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Pontelliers live in the non-summer months?

2. What does Edna say to Robert about Léonce setting her free to marry Robert?

3. What are the only items Edna takes on her move?

4. How does Edna feel she is acting?

5. By what was Edna taken regarding Léonce before they marry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Madame Ratignolle ask of Edna and what does she think of the pigeon house?

2. What story does Edna tell and how does she explain knowing of the story?

3. How does Edna feel about living in the pigeon house?

4. About what do Edna and her father argue and what does her father say to Léonce?

5. How does Léonce Pontellier treat his sunburned wife?

6. What happens when Edna visits Madame Lebrun?

7. What happens between Robert and Edna by the end of Chapter 35?

8. What happens when Edna goes to be with Madame Ratignolle as she is having her baby?

9. Describe Edna's last swim.

10. Why do Edna and her husband argue and what does each do?

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