2. "Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble" ... "her sister Josephine" "told her, in broken sentences" of her husband's death. She did so with "veiled hints that revealed in half concealing." What does the following show about Josephine? (Select all that apply.)
a. She loves her sister because she's nervous about telling her outright.
b. She worries about her sister.
c. She doesn't like her sister, and thus, doesn't want to talk to her at all.
d. Both A and C
3. How else is the reader notified about the news of Mrs. Mallard's husband's death?
a. newspaper article
b. radio report
c. railroad employee
d. her sister Josephine
4. Mrs. Mallard learned that her husband was "killed" in a:
a. bar brawl
b. railroad disaster
c. shooting accident
d. house fire
5.. "There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul" What does this quote tell you about Mrs. Mallard? (Select all that apply.)
a. Mrs. Mallard sleeps a lot.
b. Mrs. Mallard finds comfort in her roomy armchair.
c. Mrs. Mallard's exhaustion is more than just physical.
d. Mrs. Mallard's too tired to go on, similar to Elizer's dad, in Night.
e. None of the above.
6. When Mrs. Mallard looks out the window, she sees "the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life." What does this symbolize?
a. sadness and remorse
b. fear of the unknown
c. jealousy
d. rebirth and hope
7. "There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself, There would be no zwerfuLahatsliam in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature." What does the passage, specifically the underlined parts show?
(Select all that apply.)
a. That now that Mr. Mallard died, she will make her own choices.
b. That she will live according to her own choices.
c. That she is free.
d. That a fellow-creature doesn't like her.
e.. That she should blindly follow her fellow creatures.
8. -Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will-as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been." What does the word tumultously add to the meaning of this passage?
a. That the "thing- approaching to possess her" is a demon.
b. That she was not calmly breathing.
c. That she was calmly breathing.
d. That she hurt her hands.
e. None of the above.
9-She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome." This passage shows two things. What are they? (Select all that apply.)
a. That she is beginning to think about the freedom in her life.
b. That she is accepting the loss.
c. That she is going crazy.
d. That she is processing through town to find her husband.
e. None of the above.
10. "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of joy that kills." Why does the story end this way? (Select all that apply.)
a. She dies from the shock of her husband being alive.
b. She dies from heart disease.
c. She is shocked that she is no longer free.
d. All of the above.
e. None of the above.
True/False
11. Directions: For the following statements pertaining to "Story of an Hour," determine if each is true or false and mark a for true and b for false. the last of the list of "killed."
12. The following statement starts Chopin's point of how Mrs. Mallard feels about her husband's death: "She women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its did not hear the story as many significance."
13. mrs. Mallard truly misses her husband.
14. The following statement is in relation to Mrs. Mallard's husband: "She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, freer
15. Josephine is the first person who sees Mr. Mallard come home.