New England Nun Quiz

At the start of the story, Louisa Ellis is described going through her afternoon routines. Which is NOT something the reader learns about her?

• She has many cats.

• She likes lettuce.

• She serves herself tea in her fine china.

• She has a dog.

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Louisa and Joe's first conversation in the story could best be described as...

• casual

• passionate

• awkward

• jealous

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Which best demonstrates Louisa's need to have everything in order?

• Naming her dog Caesar

• Keeping a canary in a cage.

• Putting the books from the table back in order after Joe moved one.

• Eating vegetables from the garden

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How long have Louisa and Joe been engaged to be married?

• One month

• Just a few days

• 14 years

• They are not engaged

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The narrator describes "the winds of romance" whistling for Joe and Louisa. The narrator states that, for Joe, the song sung by the "winds of romance" had another name. What can be inferred by this comment?

• Joe doesn't know how to sing.

• Joe never loved Louisa.

• Joe has romantic feelings for someone else.

• Joe died in a train accident and is now a ghost.

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The narrator describes "the winds of romance" whistling for Joe and Louisa. The narrator states that, for Louisa, "the wind had never more than murmured; how it had gone down, and everything was still." What does this imply?

• Louisa's feelings for Joe were never strong, and now are gone.

• Louisa felt passionately for Joe once, but not since he returned.

• Louisa cannot love a man that loves someone else.

• Louisa has fallen in love with someone else.

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What does Louisa overhear a week before her wedding?

• Neighbors gossiping about her odd behaviors.

• Joe confessing that he wants to break his engagement with Lousia.

• Joe and Lily discussing their feelings for each other.

• Mrs. Baroda and Gouvernail touching each others' faces.

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Which of the following quotations show a clear similarity between Louisa and Mrs. Mallard from "Story of an Hour"?

• "She gazed ahead through a long reach of future days strung together...and her heart went up in thankfulness"

• "She had lived so long in one way that she shrank from making a change."

• "[She] had almost the enthusiasm of an artist over the mere order and cleanliness of her solitary home."

• "[She] was very fond of lettuce"

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