CLASS 10
THE NECKLACE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“She waited all day, in the same condition of mad fear before this terrible calamity.”
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B. “Every month they had to meet some notes, renew others, obtain more time.”
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C. “‘And it has taken us ten years to pay for it.”’
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D. “‘It was worth at most only five hundred francs!”’
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. D) “’It was worth at most only five hundred francs!’ “ The way it is said with an exclamation point is they are surprised that it is worth that much.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which sentence from the short story best creates a sense of surprise? “She waited all day, in the same condition of mad fear before this terrible calamity.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Greed: This short story has the theme of not being greedy in life as Mathilde has been. Mathilde’s greed for a better life leads her husband to get a ticket for an even where Mathilde purchases a dress they cannot afford and borrows a necklace she believes to be worth thousands.
Detailed explanation-4: -Genre. The Necklace is a fictional short story in the genre of Realism. Sub-genres include irony, for its surprise ending, and morality tale, for important lessons it offers the reader.
Detailed explanation-5: -Mathilde Loisel dreams of being rich and is self-conscious about her middle-class status. She borrows Madame Forestier’s necklace to wear to a ball but loses it, then spends the next decade working to pay off the replacement, sacrificing her beauty and youth.