The document appears to be a quiz about the short story "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The quiz contains 10 multiple choice questions that test comprehension of plot details, themes, and symbolism in the story. It asks about how characters feel at different points, the societal expectations of women's roles at the time, and invites comparison of "The Story of an Hour" to another work exploring women's experiences, "The Yellow Wallpaper".

1. The Story of an Hour Quiz
1. Richards rushes to tell Mrs. Mallard the news because he wants to
a. Help Josephine tell her
b. Be the first to tell her
c. Show her the telegram
d. Get there before Mr. Mallard
2. You can tell that society belived that women were fragile when Josephine
a. Tells the bad news in unfinished sentences
b. Stays downstairs when Mrs. Mallard goes up
c. Kneels in front of Mrs. Mallard’s door
d. Insists that Mrs. Mallard open the door
3. After she cries, Mrs. Mallard
a. Sits with Josephine
b. Falls asleep in a chair
c. Goes alone to her room
d. Prays for her husband
4. How does Mrs. Mallard feel right after she accepts that she will be free?
a. Relaxed
b. Ill
c. Afraid
d. Triumphant
5. How do Mr. and Mrs. Mallard feelabout each other?
a. She loves him, but he does not lover her.
b. He loves her, and she loves him at times.
c. They love each other very much.
d. Neither of them loves the other.
6. Mrs. Mallard decides that love
a. Is an incomprehensible mystery
b. Always ends in grief
c. Has less value than freedom
d. Is essential to any woman’s life
7. Explain the irony and importance of the final line: “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart
disease—of joy that kills.”
8. What is the significance of Chopin’s shift from passive voice to active voice?
9. Describe the roles of women in society in the 20th
century.

2. 10. Compare and contrast the experiences of the women in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and
Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” in a Venn diagram.