Story of an Hour

What is a theme in "The Story of an Hour"?

• Personal freedom

• love

• hatred

• cohersion

Which moment in the story is an example of situational irony?

• When Mrs. Mallard whispers, "free, free, free!" after hearing of her husband's death

• When Mrs. Mallard goes to her room

• When Josephine knocks at the door

• When Mr. Mallard dies in the train accident

For whom does Mrs. Mallard feels she will live for after finding out her husband died?

• Mrs. Mallard

• Josephine

• Mr. Mallard

• Mr. Henry

What is ironic about Mrs. Mallard saying that she had just been wishing for her life to be short?

• She wants her husband back.

• She does die early from shock

• She's miserable

• She regrets her life

Under which type of irony would you classify Josephine's fear that her sister will "make herself ill" by grieving alone in her room?

• Verbal irony

• Dramatic irony

• Sarcasm

• Irony

the highest or most intense part of the story or movie

• plot

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

shows the effects after the climax; the story is calming/winding down

• falling action

• climax

• rising action

• exposition

Tells or is what a story or movie is truly about

• conflict

• rising action

• plot

• climax

Trembling

• Aquiver

• Imploring

• Tumultuous

• Twittering

Which of the following is the best summary of the story?

• Louise finds our her husband died and goes upstairs and lockers herself in her room. There she vacantly stairs out the window in her sudden grief. However, Louise did not have a great relationship with her husband, and now she would be able to do as she pleased.

• Louise had a history of heart disease, so when her husband is killed in a train accident, her family and friends are worried about telling her. However, she is not upset, but instead happy because this loss means she will now be free. Unfortunately, her husband was still alive.

• Louise finds out her husband was killed in an accident and cries with grief. Then a sudden feeling of freedom takes over her. She seems to recover knowing that her husband's death means her independence. Soon after, she sees her husband coming through the front door very much alive and dies from the shock this new loss creates on her heart.

• Louise finds out her husband was killed and wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself, she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her. There she looked out her window trying to process what this all meant to her. When she finally went back downstairs, she sees her husband walking in the front door and drops dead.