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Elixir: n from Medieval Latin "philosopher's stone," believed to turn metals into gold, from Arab, aliksir, from late Greek xerion "powder for drying wounds," from xeros "dry."

In paragraph 16, what does the world elixir mean?

• golden light

• religious oil

• healing medicine

• base chemical

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

• What he witnessed establishes the truth about her husband's death.
• His presnece comforts Mrs. Mallard as she hears the news about her husband.
• He is responsible for the accident that killed her hasband, and his presence disturbs her.
• he wants to tell her only a few details about her husband's death.

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

• A first-person narrator like Mrs. Mallard can demnstrate how her opinion changes with her observations.
• A first-person narrator allows the reader to experience the emotions and feelings Mrs. Mallard is feeling.
• When we meet different people, we should be nice so they will react to us in a positive way, also.
• People can have different ideas and reactions.

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

• 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 would have been.

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

• There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature.

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

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

• is out of control
• is ruinning everything
• will change the future
• will possess her freedom

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

• The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrous were twittering in the eaves.
• She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead.
• There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carreied herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory.
• When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.

“Further, that there was nothing to fear, for the members of the Commission were all men of repute for their impartiality in justice, and as they were gentlemen chosen by God to look after the interests of races less adequately endowed with teeth and claws, he might rest assured that they would investigate the matter with the greatest care and report impartially.”

This quotation suggests that the selection explores the theme of -

• religious discrimination.

• one race discriminating against and exploiting another.

• the importance of education.

• animal rights.

What detail is left unresolved at the end of the story? (5A)

• The man still doesn’t have a hut.
• The animals are all fighting over the hut.
• The animals’ huts are not in good shape.
• The man can’t defend himself against the animals.

The tone of paragraph 9 can best be described as -

• hopeful
• angry
• sarcastic
• jealous

“My dear good friend, your skin is harder than mine, and as there is not enough room for both of us, you can afford to remain in the rain while I am protecting my delicate skin from the hailstorm.”

What is the most likely reason the author includes this description in paragraph 2?

• To show how men are stronger than animals.

• To show how dangerous climate change can be.

• To show why the Elephant needed the hut.

• To show how the animals use false logic to argue with the man’s protests.