Test 4-Open Book Test/The Story of An Hour

The Omniscient point-of-view is

• when you, the writer is telling the story

• structured around the “you” pronoun

• where the writer knows all the thoughts and feelings of all the characters

• None of the above

What point-of-view is The Story of an Hour written in?

• First-Person

• Second-Person

• Third-Person-Omniscient

• None of the above

The act of not holding back is

• abandonment

• illumination

• composed

• vacant

A person described as a luminary would be someone considered

• lacking intelligence

• lost

• clueless

• very smart

To be composed as a person is to be

• falling to pieces

• a famous singer

• under self-control

• None of the above

A vacant look on a person’s face presupposes the person might be lacking

• direction in life

• information

• intelligence

• All of the above

One thing Kate Chopin was known for was writing about women’s

• children

• sensitive issues

• marriages

• occupations in the time of her writings

In “The Story of An Hour,” seeing that Mrs. Mallard cried for a little bit, but them came back to not crying but reflected on what life would now be for her now that her husband had died, was portrayed as tremendously

• illuminated

• vacant

• abandoned

• composed

In the following sentence, which word indicates omniscient point-of-view?

“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.”

• afflicted

• knowing

• care

• possible

Read the following paragraph:

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

The underlined passage provides a hint into Josephine’s

• lack of courage

• knowing

• care

• possible