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Kate Chopin, Désirée’s Baby

Kate Chopin, Désirée’s Baby

Read Désirée’s Baby and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. How did Désirée come to be a part of the Valmondé family?

Désirée was never considered to be a part of the Valmondé family, but rather an outcast and a plague on their house.

Monsieur Valmondé found Désirée lying at the gateway of the estate and took her in.

Madame Valmondé adopted Désirée from her favorite slave, Tutuba.

Désirée married the eldest Valmondé son, Roberto.

2. In which state does the story take place?

New York

Louisiana

California

Nebraska

3. When Désirée’s mother comes to visit, Désirée says, “Oh, mamma, I’m so happy; it ______.”

seems like a fairytale

frightens me

makes life seem unfair for everyone else

fills me with even more love for my husband and baby

4. What happens to destroy the happy state at the Aubigny home?

Armand cheats on Désirée with a slave woman from the plantation.

Armand realizes that his mother died of murder.

Armand notices that their baby is developing African American features.

Armand falls out of love with Désirée because she becomes too fat and whiny.

5. What does Armand learn at the very end of the story?

that Désirée was born of a slave family from the next county over

that Désirée has drowned herself and their child

that Désirée conceived their child with another man

that his own mother descended from African American heritage