The Jewels

After selling all the jewels, Monsieur Lantin is

• coldly, furiously bitter at having been financially cheated

• torn with regret at having parted with his mementos of his beloved wife

• ashamed to have been so desperate as to sell them

• boldly extravagantly, recklessly boastful about his fortune

Monsieur Lantin's reaction to learning what his wife had done is one of

• sorrow and embarrassment

• fury and self-destruction

• exhilaration and release

• disbelief and exasperation

When Monsieur Lantin first meets his wife-to-be, he likes her

• love of imitation jewelry

• naive honesty

• simply beauty

• wealth

Monsieur Lantin attempts to sell one of his wife's jewels because

• he cannot live on his income and has almost no money left

• in her will, his wife advised him to

• a friend at the Ministry offers him a great deal of money for them

• he cannot stand the painful memories they arouse

The jeweler's assistants are amused by Monsier Lantin because they

• think he's been wearing the jewels himself

• know what his late wife was doing

• find ministry officials ridiculous

• know he's being cheated by the jeweler

Why is Monsieur Lantin surprised when the jewelry names his price for the necklace?

• He had though the necklace was fake, not real jewelry.

• The jeweler has read Monsieur Lantin's mind precisely.

• Monsieur Lantin has no desire to sell the necklace.

• He thinks he deserves more money than was offered for the necklace.

Readers are expected to infer that Madame Lantin obtained the jewels

• from Monsieur Lantin's office superior

• in robberies

• as presents from men

• by working secretly in a shop

When Madame Lantin dies, Monsieur Lantin

• remarries immediately

• sells the jewels immediately

• is overcome with grief

• is relieved

Which of the following aspects of the story is NOT ironic?

• Although Madame Lantin was unfaithful, she was still an ideal wife in every other respect.

• Madame Lantin at first seems to be simple and virtuous but later turns out to have been immoral.

• Where Lantin's first wife's dishonesty made him unhappy, his second's wife virtuousness makes him miserable.

• Monsieur Lantin's salary is barely enough to keep him going.

Monsieur Lantin's life with his wife is happy EXCEPT that she

• drags him to the theater in the evenings

• is not a good manager of the household expenses

• keeps having to sell her jewels in order to pay the rent

• is moody