The Necklace Skills Test

a. first person

c. third person objective

b. third person limited

d. third person omniscient

a. Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries.

b. He grew a little pale, because he was laying aside just that amount to buy a gun and treat himself to a little shooting next summer on the plain of Nanterre, with several friends who went to shoot larks there of a Sunday.

c. "It annoys me not to have a single piece of jewelry, not a single ornament, nothing to put on. I shall look poverty-stricken. I would almost rather not go at all.”

d. The next day they took the box that had contained it and went to the jeweler whose name was found within. He consulted his books.

c. At last they found on the quay one of those ancient night cabs which, as though they were ashamed to show their shabbiness during the day, are never seen round Paris until after dark.

d. He did borrow, asking a thousand francs of one, five hundred of another, five louis here, three louis there.

b. He threw over her shoulders the wraps he had brought, the modest wraps of common life, the poverty of which contrasted with the elegance of the ball dress.

a. Instead of being delighted, as her husband had hoped, she threw the invitation on the table crossly, muttering: "What do you wish me to do with that?"

c. dramatic irony

a. situational irony

b. verbal irony

d. all of these

b. beauty

c. deception

a. power

c. She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station

d. She saw first some bracelets, then a pearl necklace, then a Venetian gold cross set with precious stones, of admirable workmanship.

b. She had a friend, a former schoolmate at the convent, who was rich, and whom she did not like to go to see any more because she felt so sad when she came home.

a. She thought of silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestry, illumined by tall bronze candelabra, and of two great footmen in knee breeches who sleep in the big armchairs, made drowsy by the oppressive heat of the stove.

a. She is the most beautiful woman in the entire country.

d. She wants a career that offers a high salary.

b. She feels entitled to riches because of her appearance and charm.

c. She comes from a wealthy family.

c. She wishes to work in an office alongside her husband.

a. She protects her family against debtors.

b. She provides for others who are in need.

d. She desires to have things that are unattainable to her.

b. “She bore her part, however, with sudden heroism.”

a. “Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries.”

c. “That dreadful debt must be paid.”

d. “She came to know what heavy housework meant and the odious cares of the kitchen.”

a. selfish and prideful

c. obnoxious and presumptuous

b. loyal and dutiful

d. boring and undesirable

c. He compromised all the rest of his life, risked signing a note without even knowing whether he could meet it;

a. Loisel returned at night with a hollow, pale face. He had discovered nothing.

b. "Why, the gown you go to the theatre in. It looks very well to me.” He stopped, distracted, seeing that his wife was weeping. Two great tears ran slowly from the corners of her eyes toward the corners of her mouth.

d. "You might wear natural flowers," said her husband. "They're very stylish at this time of year.”

a. He is hardworking and determined.

d. He knows that his wife does not truly love him.

b. He is angry with his wife and unsympathetic toward her.

c. He relies on his wife for emotional support.

b. “Loisel possessed eighteen thousand francs which his father had left him. He would borrow the rest.”

c. “He went to police headquarters, to the newspaper offices to offer a reward; he went to the cab companies—everywhere, in fact, whither he was urged by the least spark of hope.”

d. “‘How stupid you are!’ her husband cried. ‘Go look up your friend, Madame Forestier, and ask her to lend you some jewels. You're intimate enough with her to do that.’”

a. “Loisel held her back, saying: ‘Wait a bit. You will catch cold outside. I will call a cab.’”

c. She enjoys the admiration she receives.

a. She wants to use the ball to launch herself into high society.

b. The waltz is her favorite dance.

d. Her charming conversations woo the Cabinet.

b. “He threw over her shoulders the wraps he had brought, the modest wraps of common life, the poverty of which contrasted with the elegance of the ball dress.”

c. “It took them to their dwelling in the Rue des Martyrs, and sadly they mounted the stairs to their flat.”

a. “He stopped, distracted, seeing that his wife was weeping.”

d. “She no longer had the necklace around her neck!”