Midterm:

Quiz #1. (30 points)

Instruction: Provide the missing answer and give explanation to
your answer.

1. Why did the beautiful and charming main character (Mathilde

Loisel) marry a minor civil servant (an unimportant
government employee)?
2. What did Mathilde want more than anything else?
3. Why does Mathilde think she cannot go to the ball to which
she and her husband received invitations?
4. Mathilde’s husband gives her ______________ to buy a new
dress to wear to the ball and suggests that she borrow
________________________ from her friend, Madame Forestier.
5. What does Mathilde discover when she returns from the ball
that night?
6. How do Mathilde and her husband try to cover up the loss?
7. The new necklace cost __________ francs. They borrowed the
money to buy it.
8. How long does it take the Loisel’s to pay back the money?
9. When Mathilde sees her friend Madame Forestier again after
ten years, Madame Forestier tells Mathilde that the necklace
she let her borrow to wear to the ball was _______________ and
that it was not worth more than _____________ francs.
10. Give an example of situational irony from the story.