WorksheetsVocabulary Quiz - Story of an Hour
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
"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
