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Literature Review
From Orpheus and Eurydice:

1. What is the genre of Orpheus and Eurydice?

a. A myth
b. A poem
c. A novel
d. A short story

2. Orpheus was the son of god ___.

a. Zeus
b. Apollo
c. Hades
d. None of the Above

3. Orpheus controlled monsters, people, and objects using ____.

a. magic
b. spells
c. music
d. sword

4. On her wedding day, Eurydice was stung by a serpent in the ___.

a. park
b. meadows
c. desert
d. lake

5. Orpheus couldn’t endure the ____.

a. happiness
b. luxury
c. pain/ grief
d. relaxation

6. Orpheus decided to go to ____to bring Eurydice back to life.

a. the underworld
b. Heaven
c. park
d. market

7. Orpheus went to _____to convince him to bring Eurydice back to life.

a. Zeus
b. Hades
c. Olympia
d. Aphrodite

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8. Hades was the god of ______.

a. the ocean
b. the sky
c. the underworld
d. the thunder

9. Orpheus’s limbs were buried in ______.

a. Mount Everest
b. Mount Olympus
c. the Alps
d. the ocean

10. Orpheus was _____to look at Eurydice before they reached the Upper world.
a. tempted
b. jealous
c. proud
d. demolished

The Necklace:
1. Madame Loisel was a ______French lady.
a. ugly
b. beautiful
c. rich
d. deformed

2. Madame Loisel laments the fact that she was ______.

a. rich
b. poor
c. jealous
d. ugly

3. What solution did Monsieur Loisel come up with to sort out the accessories issue for
Madame Loisel?
a) Wear natural flowers
b) Buy a fake necklace from a shop.
c) Borrow necklace from her friend.
d) None of the Above

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4. From the Necklace, Madame Loisel aspires to purchase ____.

a) lavish items
b) a loan
c) a hut
d) cheap ornaments

5. After ten years of working off the price of the necklace, the once-charming Madame
Loisel is “hard and coarse” and “disheveled.” This is ironic because Madame Loisel
a) values luxury and beauty but loses both through carelessness.
b) requires strength and energy to work off the price of the necklace.
c) loses the necklace because she has so much fun as the belle of the ball.
d) borrows the necklace to be admired at the ball but then loses her friend’s respect.

6. Which ironic twist does the surprise ending of “The Necklace” suggest?

a) If Madame Loisel had not spoken to Madame Forestier in the park, Madame Forestier
would not have recognized her friend.
b) If Madame Loisel had not had to work hard for ten years, she would still be as pretty
and as charming as Madame Forestier.
c) If Madame Forestier had known about the loss of the necklace, she would have gladly
lent Madame Loisel a different piece of jewelry.
d) If Madame Loisel had admitted to Madame Forestier that she lost the necklace, the
Loisels would have had to borrow only five hundred francs to pay for it.

7. What is ironic about Monsieur Loisel’s situation?

a) Because he tries to do something nice for his wife, Monsieur Loisel finds his
comfortable life destroyed.
b) Because he marries a beautiful young woman, Monsieur Loisel hopes to impress
people and receive a promotion.
c) Because his wife is vain and silly, Monsieur Loisel makes a mistake by trusting her
with expensive jewelry.
d) Because his wife learns to work hard, Monsieur Loisel builds a reputation as a trusted
and capable husband.

8. What one lesson is suggested by the story’s ending, when Madame Forestier tells
Madame Loisel that the necklace was a fake?
a) Pride goes before a fall.
b) Beauty is only skin deep.
c) Appearances may be deceiving.
d) Friends stick together through trouble.

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9. Theme of deceptiveness of appearance is depicted throughout The Necklace. Illustrate.

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10. The Necklace depicts situational irony. Illustrate.

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The Seventh Man:

1. What can readers infer about the narrator’s feelings after K dies?

a) The narrator feels concerned that K may still be alive.

b) The narrator feels sad but knows he did nothing wrong.
c) The narrator feels angry that he brought K to the beach.
d) The narrator feels guilty that he did not try to save his friend

2. The Seventh Man” begins with the narrator in a room of people, about to tell his story.
Read this sentence from the story. He cleared his throat, and for a moment or two his
words were lost in silence. The underlined oxymoron suggests that

a) it is difficult to tell a traumatic story.

b) it is necessary to pause before telling a story.
c) the narrator’s audience is quiet and respectful.
d) the narrator has forgotten what he wants to say.

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“And he was smiling at me. Not with an ordinary smile—it was a big, wide-open grin that
literally stretched from ear to ear. His cold, frozen eyes were locked on mine. He was no
longer the K I knew.

3. What is the tone of the previous lines?

a. happiness
b. eerie
c. neutral
d. sarcastic

4. What is the genre of the Seventh Man?

a. A short story
b. A myth
c. A poem
d. A novel

5. From The Seventh Man, what is the method of narration?

a. First-person method
b. Third-person method
c. Third-person omniscient
d. Second-person

K was a frail, skinny little thing, with a pale complexion and a face almost pretty enough to be a
girl’s. He had some kind of speech impediment, though, which might have made him seem
retarded to anyone who didn’t know him.”

6. As used in the previous lines, what does “impediment” mean?

a. Hinderance
b. Advantage
c. Reliable
d. Generous

7. What was K associated with?

a. Videogames
b. Money
c. Sea
d. Gambling

8. The Seventh Man took place in _____.

a. Japan
b. the United States of America
c. the United Kingdom
d. the Maldives Islands

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9. Compare and contrast the narrator’s feelings about the ocean after the tragedy and in the
present day.

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