English Quiz

What does Mr. and Mrs. Pontellier's disagreement about Raoul's fever reflects?

Mr. Pontellier's belief in his authority over his wife because his choice of words sounded very controlling

Lines 59-63 demonstrate Mrs. Pontellier's desire to?

question her situation because she does not understand why she feels this way towards her husband

Which quotation best reveals the irony of the statement that Mr. Pontellier's wife "was the sole object of his existence?

"he was eager to be gone, as he looked forward to a lively week in Carondelet Street" because if she was really the reason of his existence, he wouldn't be so anxious to leave for a week

The author presents Mr. Pontellier as a man who feels?

arrogant because how he reproaches his wife by instructing what her role should be as a mother

Lines 33-37 contribute to a central theme in the poem by describing the narrator's?

commitment to the values of a past era because throughout the whole poem, the narrator expressed his love for this landscape and now that it has changed makes him frustrated and think of old memories

One major effect of the simile uses in line 52 is to emphasize Mrs. Pontellier's?

distress because the simile emphasized her sadness and sorrow. The sea was not uplifting enough

What is the primary purpose of the first paragraph in passage about Mrs. Pontellier?

establish a contrast because Mr. and Mrs. Pontellier both have very different demeanors and interactions with each other

In the poem, what shift in focus occurs from lines 7-22?

from external description to childhood memory because as he is driving past, a memory comes of him climbing in the attic and playing his grandmother's mandolin

Which word best describes the narrator's tone in lines 28-38 of the poem?

frustrated because a landscape he once loved so loyally has changed drastically

Lines 82-89 contradict a central idea in the text by describing Mr. Pontellier's what?

generosity because throughout the story, he is shown to be very bossy/full of himself. Now he is giving his wife baskets filled with food. His generosity contradicts that impression

The author's choice of language in lines 44-52 serves to emphasize Mrs. Pontellier's sense o?

isolation because her actions were those of a lonely person: blowing out the candle, no sound abroad, the sea was like a mournful lullaby

In the poem, what is the effect of the simile used in lines 21-22?

it emphasizes the diminishing of the past because it completes the narrator's description of how the upstates hillsides changed so that they are "raw and dull" like worm brass

In the poem, the details presented in lines 4-13 emphasize the landscape's?

transformation because images show examples of the changes of the landscape in 19th century rural life. He wanted to catch a glimpse of how it once was when he drove past