'The Story of an Hour'

The author wrote the story in the ______ century.

• 19th
• 18th
• 20th
• 21st

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The fact that Louise had a heart condition ________ her death from a heart attack.

• paradoxs

• double entendres

• foreshadows

• flashbacks

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The story is written in ______ person narration.

• first
• second
• third
• fourth

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Who breaks the news of Mr. Mallard's death?

• Friar John
• Josephine
• Richards
• Roberts

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What might Mrs. Mallard's ailment symbolize?  

• her inability to see things as they are
• her inability to filter out less important things in life
• her unhappiness and troubling emotions
• a raging desire for pig flesh

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is significant about the story's setting?

• The story's set in a time period that afforded women very few rights.
• It takes place in a large house.
• The story encompasses one hour.
• The setting makes no difference.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

How could we best characterize Brently Mallard?

• He is an abusive husband who deserves to die in a fiery train wreck.
• He set up the train story so he could scare his wife and kill her.
• He's a typical husband in the late 19th-century.
• He's an adulterer/cheater.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.9

" except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her" 

Sob means: 

• a man
• a woman
• a cry
• food

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What literary device is used at the end of the story when the doctor claims Mrs. Mallard "died of heart disease- of the joy that kills"?

• Personification
• Irony
• Simile
• Juxtaposition

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

"It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long. " Here, Shudder means..

• to tremble in happiness 
• to tremble in sadness 
• to tremble in hope 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4