This word means "a physical, mental, or emotional wound"
What is "laceration"
100
Who is the main character from "I Stand Here Ironing?"
Who is Emily.
100
This term means "a state of being unknown or unrecognized"
What is "anonymity"
100
Why is Josephine careful about how she tells her sister the news? Her sister has a:
What is heart condition.
100
Why does Emily's mother not believe that she is partially to blame for what Emily had to endure as a child?
What is she felt she had done the best that she could.
200
This term means, "clear, and effective in speech"
What is "articulate"
200
Who is the narrator of "I Stand Here Ironing"
Who is Emily's mother.
200
This term means "understandable, logically consistent"
What is "coherent"
200
What is the news that we find out at the beginning of the story?
What is Mr. Mallard has died.
200
Why does Emily get sent to a Convalescent home?
What is so her mother could take care of Susan.
300
This word means "devastated, ruined"
What is "ravaged"
300
Who is the main character in "The Story of an Hour"
Who is Mrs. Mallard.
300
This term means "an honor or admiration"
What is "prestige"
300
Mrs. Mallard discovers a sense of what while up in her room alone?
What is freedom.
300
John believes that his wife is sick from a nervous condition. What was going on during the time period that makes us suspect another cause for the wife's sickness?
What is the high expectations of upper class women.
400
Fill in the sentence with the vocabulary word that best fits.
"Sally always likes to ___________ up the past by talking about her break-up from Brian that happened over a year ago."
What is "dredge"
400
Which story is told as an interior monologue?
What is "I Stand Here Ironing"
400
Fill in the sentence with the vocabulary word that best fits.
"Madison wakes up two hours before she needs to leave for school because she needs the extra time to finish _________________ her hair and make-up. "
What is "preening"
400
Which of the two reactions does Mrs. Mallard have FIRST about the death of her husband?
1. She is happy and realizes she is a free woman.
2. She is overcome with grief and sadness.
What is overcome with grief and sadness.
400
Why does the wife see imagine that there is a woman trapped in the wallpaper?
What is she feels confined in her own life.
500
Fill in the sentence with the vocabulary word that best fits.
"After both he and Devon received F's for copying on their exam, Tyler screamed his ______________ claiming that Devon had copied off his test."
What is "denunciation"
500
Who is the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Who is John's Wife
500
Fill in the sentence with the vocabulary word that best fits.
"Scientists are experts are creating new ____________s and formulas because they spend their time mixing different chemicals together."
What is "compound"
500
Who arrives at the door at the end of the story? (Proper name!)
Who is Brently Mallard.
500
The doctors say that Mrs. Mallard died of joy at the end of the story, but we as the readers know this isn't true. What does she really die of, and why?
What is gaining and losing a sense of freedom from society's expectations of a wife.