Final Exam 2024/Spring

Sequence the events in the order in which they happened in the story, "The Necklace."

• borrows jewelry from a friend

• invitation to a ball arrives

• no dress

• leaves ball in a hurry, losing friend's necklace

• returns a newly bought diamond necklace to friend

The author of "The Necklace" is...

• Kathryn Behr

• Madame Errante

• Guy de Maupassant

• Madame Loisel

a hint of what's to come in the future

• suspense

• irony

• characterization

• foreshadowing

"Oh, my poor Mathilde. But mine was only paste. Why, at most it was worth only five hundred francs." The word PASTE most nearly means...

• expensive

• sticky substance

• valuable

• fake

"Oh, my poor Mathilde. But mine was only paste. Why, at most it was worth only five hundred francs." The WRITING STRATEGY used here is known as...

• irony

• characterization

• plot

• resolution

Oh OH! Madame Loisel loses her friend's necklace. This event represents THIS element of plot...

• resolution

• inciting incident

• rising action

• climax

an object that represents an idea

• irony

• character

• foreshadow

• symbol

She grieved over the shabbiness of her apartment, the dinginess of the walls, the worn-out appearance of the chairs, the ugliness of the draperies. This description helps to CHARACTERIZE Mathilde as….

• real estate agent

• appreciative

• fashion designer

• materialistic

In Maupassant's story, "The Necklace," the necklace itself is a symbol of…

• honesty

• love; friendship

• wealth; high stature

• dreams; goals

"...she would dream of fashionable dinner parties, of gleaming silverware, of tapestries making the walls alive with characters out of history and strange birds in a fairyland forest..." This is an ALLUSION, or reference to a familiar story, known as…

• Hansel & Gretel

• Little Red Riding Hood

• Cinderella

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves