Vocabulary Quiz - Story of an Hour

"Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble..." In this sentence the word afflicted means:

• affected

• afraid

• affiliated

• afforded

"When the storm of grief had spent itself..." Spent itself here means:

• passed

• destroyed

• thundered

• rained

"Whose lines bespoke repression." Bespoke is the past tense of bespeak. In this sentence bespeak means:

• to hide

• to talk

• to indicate

• to silence

"...away off yonder on those patches of blue sky." Yonder here means:

• invisible

• unreachable

• at a distance

• dreamily

"Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously." The word 1) bosom and 2) tumultuously mean:

• 1) Body, 2) Fearfully

• 1) Chest, 2) Violently

• 1) Chest, 2) Emotionally agitated

• 1) Body, 2) Joyfully

"As powerless as her two white slender hands would have been." The word powerless here is a:

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

"She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her." The word monstrous here is a:

• Noun

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

"Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhold, imploring for admission." Imploring for admission means:

• Insisting on a confession

• Nagging for allowance

• Begging to be let in

"She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities." Importunities is a:

• Pronoun

• verb

• adjective

• noun

"She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities." Importunities means:

• Children

• Jewels

• Indiscretion

• Persistence