'The Story of an Hour' Assessment

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.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which character is the first to learn of Mr. Mallard's "death"?

• None of the choices here

• Josephine

• Richards

• Louise

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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 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.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

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 of this time period.

• He's an adulterer/cheater.

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

The _____ Amendment gave women the right to vote.

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The year women received the vote:

• 1910
• 1920
• 1930
• 1940

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Identify the figurative language: "She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep."

• Motif
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3