Question 1

In paragraph 16, what does the word elixir mean?

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C  HEALING MEDICINE

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B. RELIGIOUS OIL

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A. GOLDEN LIGHT

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D. BASE CHEMICAL

Question 2

How does Richard's presence in paragraph 2 affect Mrs. Mallard's reaction to the news?

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F What he witnessed establishes the truth about her husband's death

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H. He is responsible for the accident that killed her husband, and his presence disturbs her.

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J.  He wants to tell her only a few details about her husband's death.

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G. His presence comforts Mrs. Mallard as she hears the news about her husband

Question 3

What is the effect of the story's point of view?

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C  A third -person narrator allows the reader to experience the emotions and feelings Mrs. Mallard is feeling

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B.  A first-person narrator allows the reader to experience the emotions by describing her transition.

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D.  A third-person limited narrator allows readers to observe only the outward physical response of Mrs. Mallard as she reacts to the events of the story.

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A.  A first -person narrator like Mrs. Mallard can demonstrate hpw her opinion changes with her observations.

Question 4

Which sentence from the story indicates Mrs.  Mallard's first realization that her reaction to her husband's death may be unusual?

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F  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.

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H.  There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men...

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G.  She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!"

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J.  What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession os self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as teh strongest impulse of her being!

Question 5

In paragraph 17, the expression "running riot" describes something that -

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A is out of control

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d.  will possess her freedom

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b.  is ruining everything

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c.  will change the future

Question 6

Which sentence from the story contains an allusion that helps to explain how Mrs. Mallard feels after she realizes she is free from her husband?

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H There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of victory

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F  The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves

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J.  When the doctors came they said she had dies of heart diseases - of the joy that kills

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G  She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind,tender hands folded in death....

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