1Read the excerpt from The Awakening before you choose your answer.
"When Mr. Pontellier learned of his wife's intention to abandon her home and take up her residence elsewhere, he immediately wrote her a letter of unqualified disapproval and remonstrance... It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their menage on a humbler scale than heretofore." (Chapter XXXII)
In this excerpt, the author characterizes Mr. Pontellier primarily as
concerned and empathetic
diffident but covetous
materialistic and self-absorbed
practical and unassuming
unpretentious and kindly
2Read the excerpt from The Awakening before you choose your answer.
"But to her unaccustomed vision the stretch of water behind her assumed the aspect of a barrier and for a second of time appalled and enfeebled her senses. But by an effort she rallied her staggering faculties and managed to regain the land." (Chapter X)
Which of the following statements best describes the narrator's main purpose in this excerpt?
To foreshadow the closing chapter of the novel
To illuminate Edna's emotional insecurity
To suggest that Edna will maintain her artistic ambitions
To symbolize Edna's struggle to maintain independence
To underscore the impending conflict between husband and wife
3Read the excerpt from The Awakening before you choose your answer.
The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. (Chapter VI)
Considering The Awakening as a whole, this sentence is an example of
allusion and symbol
foreshadowing and metaphor
imagery and metaphor
simile and allusion
symbol and foreshadowing
