Q 01/05

Which caged pet opens The Awakening by shrieking French phrases until Léonce Pontellier walks away?

A) A parrot

B) A mynah

C) A raven

D) A magpie

Answer · why

A) A parrot

A parrot, green and yellow, keeps screaming at him to go away until he gives up reading there and walks off to his own cottage. It belongs to Madame L...

Q 02/05

Which skill does Edna finally master one moonlit night in The Awakening, after failing all summer?

A) Sailing

B) Canoeing

C) Swimming

D) Fishing

Answer · why

C) Swimming

Swimming comes to her all at once, like a tottering child who suddenly finds it can walk alone. Robert Lebrun had given her lessons almost daily and w...

Q 03/05

After quarrelling with Léonce in The Awakening, Edna flings down which item and stamps on it in vain?

A) Her pearl necklace

B) Her wedding ring

C) Her silver locket

D) Her gold watch

Answer · why

B) Her wedding ring

Her wedding ring survives without a mark, however hard her boot heel comes down. A maid hands it back a few minutes later and Edna slips it onto her f...

Q 04/05

Robert Lebrun abruptly leaves Grand Isle in The Awakening, claiming a business opening in which country?

A) Cuba

B) Brazil

C) France

D) Mexico

Answer · why

D) Mexico

Mexico had been his talk for years, so Edna is stunned to hear at dinner that he is leaving that very night. He later admits the trip was an excuse to...

Q 05/05

How does Edna Pontellier die in the final chapter of Kate Chopin's The Awakening, back on Grand Isle?

A) By poison

B) By drowning

C) By yellow fever

D) By gunshot

Answer · why

B) By drowning

By drowning, though Chopin never shows the death itself. The last page stays inside Edna's mind as sounds and scents from her childhood come back to h...