The Story Of The Hour Test Questions – Flashcards
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
The main character of the story is...
answer
Mrs. Mallard
question
The setting of the story is...
answer
Mrs. Mallard's house
question
Mrs. Mallard has trouble with her...
answer
heart
question
Did Mr. Mallard die in the story.?
answer
no
question
Did Mrs. Mallard die in the story?
answer
yes
question
Mrs. Mallard want to be?
answer
free
question
Mrs. Mallard's sister is?
answer
Josephine
question
Setting
answer
the time and place the story takes place
question
Characters
answer
the actors in the story
question
Plot
answer
sequence of related events in the story
question
Point of View
answer
the vantage point from which the story is being told
question
Theme
answer
the main message of the story
question
The fact that Mrs. Mallard is the one that dies and not Mr. Mallard is an example of...
answer
irony
question
The story takes place in the present, past or future?
answer
past
question
The story is told in 1st, 2nd or 3rd person?
answer
3rd person
question
b
answer
mrs mallard has a diabetes b heart trouble c arthritis
question
a
answer
when louise mallard first hears of her husband's death, she a cries b prays c jumps with joy
question
c
answer
louise mallard feels _______ by her husband's death a betrayed b lonely c set free
question
c
answer
mr mallard was a ______ husband a absent b abusive c loving
question
a
answer
mrs mallard looks forward to _____ a living only for herself b traveling to exotic places c marrying again
question
d
answer
the narrator in the story describes the home they have rented for the summer as a beautiful and stately b run down and spooky c like a prison d b and c
question
a
answer
during her 'cure', the narrator is a forbidden to visit certain relatives b allowed to write c forced to sleep in the crib with her baby d a and c
question
a
answer
john and her brother are ________ a physicians b university professors c journalists
question
d
answer
the narrator begins to see ______ in the wallpaper a eyes b shadowy shapes c a woman d all of the above
question
d
answer
at the end of the story, the narrator ______ a crawls around the room b crawls over her husband's unconscious body c says she has gotten free despite her husband and jane d all of the above
question
Ironic
answer
The author is saying don't get married because it is a form of slavery for woman, the women's vow for marriage is to love, to honor, and to OBEY She's being joyful because she won't be a slave anymore, and has her own life to live she's being held back by being a housewife After she says she is free, she dies Spring time new life, new birth She's being honest with her feelings She lived for her husband, but now she'll live for herself Free body and soul Brently had been far from the railroad accident, and did not even know there was one The doctors said that her death is caused by her overwhelming joy when she sees her husband alive, but she was actually disappointed because her brief moment of freedom was taken away from her (stereotype of male doctors)
question
Setting
answer
Louise Mallard's house Beautiful spring day 1980s
question
Louise Mallard
answer
heart condition, husband "died", at first acted sadly, and then she was happy, unhappily married, a babe
question
Brently Mallard
answer
"died" and happily married
question
Josephine
answer
Louise's sister
question
Richards
answer
Brently's friend, works at newspaper office
question
Theme
answer
A women's role after marriage, a housewife
question
Quotes
answer
"Free, free, free!" Opening line which told us that she had heart trouble foreshadows the outcome of he dying
question
Louise Mallard
answer
protagonist, has a heart condition, husband "died", at first acted correctly then was happy husband died, unhappily married, and a babe
question
Brently Mallard
answer
"died" and happily married
question
Josephine
answer
Louise's sister
question
Richards
answer
Brently's friend
question
important quotes
answer
"aquiver with the new spring life", "lines bespoke repression", "But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air", "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease---of joy that kills"
question
Author
answer
Kate Chopin
question
Character
answer
Louise Mallard Brently Mallard (husband) Josephine Richards (Brently's friend)
question
Why is Mrs. Mallard's heart disease introduced in the first sentence of the story?
answer
From the opening line of the story, we learn that Mrs. Mallard's health is poor. She suffers from "heart trouble" (95). The significance of this is fully realized when the shock of seeing her husband at the end of the story causes her death.
question
What is Mrs. Mallard's reaction to the news?
answer
Mrs. Mallard receives the news of her husband's death with full understanding of its gravity. The third person narrator emphasizes that Louise does not experience "a paralyzed inability to accept its significance" (95), and the "storm of grief" (95) that follows reinforces the fact that she realizes the magnitude of what she has just been told.
question
Describe the setting in paragraphs 4 to 6. Is this significant?
answer
The storm of Mrs. Mallard's public grief passes quickly in the temporal organization of the narrative, and contrasts with her private response to the news in her room. In the confinement of her room, Louise Mallard finds release. The death of Brently Mallard is juxtaposed against the promise of life—the setting outside Louise's window is "all aquiver with the new spring life" (95). Behind her closed door, she drinks in "a very elixir of life through that open window" (96); she experiences a "monstrous joy" (96). Brently's death, then, signals Louise's rebirth.
question
What are the "daring" themes of "The Story of an Hour"?
answer
Brently Mallard "had never looked save with love upon her" (96), and yet she welcomes his death as an escape from an oppressive marriage. Chopin's description of Louise as "young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression" (96), and Louise's thought that "A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime" (96), comment pointedly and negatively on this marriage. Many readers have extrapolated this to be a comment on the position of women in nineteenth-century marriage. Louise's joy over being released by her husband's death from her marriage daringly flouts the conventional expectations of the dutiful wife that were current in Chopin's time.
question
What ironies do you find in "The Story of an Hour"?
answer
Louise's triumph is brief. The moment she accepts her freedom, she leaves her room; the moment she leaves her room, she loses her newly gained freedom. As Louise Mallard descends the stairs, Brently Mallard opens the front door and Louise Mallard is shocked to death. The doctors' explanation is the final irony of the story. Mrs. Mallard did die of joy, but it is not the joy of seeing her husband again.
question
author
answer
Kate Chopin
question
main character:
answer
Mrs. Mallard
question
plot part
answer
Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble so her sister is careful to break the news to her that he husband has died in a train accident because his name (Brently) was on the list of dead. Mrs. Mallard goes to he room and feels like she if free from her husband and is overjoyed my his death. then Brently walks in the front door and Mrs. mallard gets a heart attack and dies of "happiness".
question
themes
answer
the "forbidden joy of independence"- where Mrs. Mallard has to celebrate her joy in the secrecy of her room. the "inherent oppressiveness of marriage" she is trapped in an unsatisfying marriage
question
symbols
answer
"heart trouble" - her unhappiness in marriage, finally kills her open window- represents the new freedom that she gained spring beauty- instead of creating a somber mood for the bad news, it represents new beginning
question
year written
answer
1894
question
Louise Mallard
answer
main character, her husband allegedly dies
question
Brently Mallard
answer
Louise's husband
question
Josephine
answer
Louise's sister
question
Richards
answer
Brently's friend
question
From: "Story of an Hour"
answer
She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!"
question
From: "Story of an Hour"
answer
She did not know; it was too subtle and too elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, raching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.
question
From: "Story of an Hour"
answer
"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.
question
From: "Story of an Hour"
answer
No: she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.
question
From: "Story of an Hour"
answer
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease-of joy that kills
