CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

THE NECKLACE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Madame Loisel wanted to have a house filled with expensive furniture, silverware, and ____
A
knicknacks
B
artwork
C
music
D
pictures
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -She spurns Loisel’s idea of wearing fresh flowers but takes his suggestion of borrowing some jewelry from her friend, Madame Jeanne Forestier. The only item she borrows is a diamond necklace.

Detailed explanation-2: -There, she wishes to appear to others as a woman of wealth. To reach this goal she goes as far as to borrow a diamond necklace from her friend to wear at the party.

Detailed explanation-3: -He is the one who devises a plan for purchasing a replacement necklace and orchestrates the loans and mortgages that help them pay for it.

Detailed explanation-4: -In “The Necklace, ” Mathilde Loisel, a middle-class wife, yearns for the upper-class lifestyle her clerk husband cannot afford for her. Her desire to be more than her current status leads her and her husband down a painful path that lasts ten years.

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