"The Notebook" by Guy de Maupassant

"She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistakes 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 assumed to be unintelligent

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

How does Mme. Loisel feel about her social standing?

• dissatisfied and resentful

• indifferent, but somewhat content

• angry and unhappy

• worried and anxious

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

According to the narrator, what determines social class?

• charm and grace

• one's professional rank

• the family which one is born into

• destiny

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.W.7.9A

Which of the following best evidences the fact that Mme. Loisel's husband cares about her happiness?

• "... her husband, who uncovered the soup tureen and declared with an enchanted air. "Ah, the good pot-au-feu! I don't know anything better than that."

• "He threw over her shoulders the wraps which he had brought, modest wraps of common life..."

• "But, one evening, her husband returned home with a triumphant air, and holding a large envelope in his hand."

• Her husband, already half undressed, demanded: "What is the matter with you?"

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.9A

Which of the following is not a description of Monsieur Loisel?

• economical

• pragmatic

• selfish

• thoughtful

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.9A

"They found, in a shop at the Palais Royal, a string of diamonds which seemed to them exactly like the one they looked for." This is an example of

• foreshadowing

• hyperbole

• irony

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

In the end, how has her poverty changed Mme. Loisel?

• 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

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.9A

Mme. Forestier is the antagonist in the story.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.9A

How does Mme. Forestier respond to the shock at the end?

• compassionately

• ruthlessly

• indifferent

• sorrowfully

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.W.7.9A

The twist at the end of the story is an example of

• paradox

• hyperbole

• irony

• suspense