Chapter V Quiz — The Awakening

What is Robert Lebrun's summer habit that the narrator reveals in Chapter V?

• He writes letters to a different woman each season
• He devotes himself to a different woman at Grand Isle each summer
• He takes long solitary swims every evening
• He paints portraits of the resort guests

How does Edna view Madame Ratignolle's appearance?

• As plain and unremarkable
• As intimidatingly beautiful
• As a faultless Madonna
• As old-fashioned and severe

What happens to Edna's portrait of Madame Ratignolle?

• Robert accidentally spills water on it
• Madame Ratignolle takes it home as a gift
• Edna smudges paint across it and crumples the paper
• It is left unfinished when they go to the beach

What does the narrator say about Creole husbands and jealousy?

• They are fiercely protective of their wives
• They pretend not to be jealous in public
• The Creole husband is never jealous; the passion has been dwarfed by disuse
• They channel jealousy into productive work

How does the Gulf's murmur reach Edna at the end of Chapter V?

• Like a distant thunderstorm
• Like a loving but imperative entreaty
• Like the voices of children at play
• Like a warning she cannot ignore

Why does Edna find satisfaction in her sketching?

• It reminds her of her childhood training
• It provides a kind of satisfaction no other employment affords her
• Madame Ratignolle encourages her to pursue professional art
• Robert promises to sell her paintings in New Orleans

What does Robert do that Edna quietly repulses twice?

• He tries to hold her hand
• He rests his head against her arm
• He whispers in her ear
• He attempts to take her paintbrush

Robert lived in the shadow of Edna Pontellier for the past month before Chapter V begins.

Madame Ratignolle criticized Edna's painting skills and asked her to stop sketching.

What does "vouchsafe" mean as used in the chapter?

• To keep safe from harm
• To give or grant in a gracious or condescending manner
• To promise faithfully
• To refuse politely

What does "languorous" mean in the phrase "the breeze soft and languorous"?

• Dangerously strong
• Bitterly cold
• Relaxed, dreamy, and pleasantly lazy
• Unpredictable and shifting

What does "seriocomic" mean as Chopin uses it to describe Robert's tone?

• Deeply serious and somber
• Combining seriousness and comedy; half-earnest, half-humorous
• Sarcastic and biting
• Theatrical and melodramatic