The Necklace Review

The story tells us that Mathilde cares mainly about:

• Food

• Clothes and jewelry

• Her husband

• Work

Why does Mathilde refuse to visit her rich school friend?

• Because she does not like her.

• Because she is too busy.

• Because she is ashamed of her lower status.

• Because her husband forbids any contact with her friend.

Which of the following best shows the fact that

Mme. Loisel’s husband cares about her happiness?

• Her husband worked in the evenings at putting straight a merchant's accounts, and often at night he did copying

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• Her husband, already half undressed,

  demanded: “What is the matter with you?”

• “But, one evening, her husband returned home

  with a triumphant air, and holding a large

  envelope in his hand.”

• "I'll go over all the ground we walked," he said, "and see if I can't find it."

“She was one of those pretty and charming girls who

are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny, born in a

family of clerks.” What does this imply?

• One is born into the social class one deserves.

• You cannot move out of the social class you are

  born into.

• Beautiful people are expected to be of a higher

  social class.

• Clerks are seen as unintelligent.

True or False: Despite wanting to save for other things, Mathilde's husband agrees to give her money for a new dress.

• True

• False

What gets lost at the party?

What happens at the party?

• Mathilde is the prettiest woman present.

• All the men want to dance with her and admire her beauty.

• Her husband dozes off in a room.

• All of the above.

After losing the necklace, Mathilde and her husband work hard to replace it.

• True

• False

How does poverty change Mathilde?

• She looks older than she is.

• She has become a hard worker.

• She has lost some of her pride and vanity.

• All of the above.

What is ironic about the necklace at the end of the story?

• Mme. Forestier had another one at home.

• The necklace was not real and the Loisels ended up paying more than it was worth.

• The original, lost necklace was found.

• None of the above.