1. Who enjoyed the ball?

2. Continuing without interruption

3. incessant

4. Very poor person

5. pauper

6. Excessive

7. exorbitant

8. Done naturally

9. Instinctive

10. The money, goods, or estate that one brings to her marriage

11. Dowry

12. The hanging of heavy fabric for use as a curtain

13. Draperies

14. A low but often continuous sound

15. Murmur

16. To make involuntary stops and repetitions while speaking

17. stammer

18. To fill with alarm

19. Dismay

20. Clever management of money

21. Thrifty

22. Mme Forestier never contacted Mathilde after her necklace was “returned.” Why?

23. She didn’t realize that her necklace was fake

24. Why did Mr. Loisel expect his wife to be pleased to receive the invitation from the Minister of Education?

25. She likes fancy things

26. What was Mathilde’s reaction on reading the invitation?

27. annoyed

28. Why had Mr. Loisel been saving money?

29. To buy a rifle

30. Why did Mathilde want to hurry away from the ball?

31. Her coat was plain

32. What did Mathilde do to find the necklace?

33. Police station Cab company Newspaper office

34. What was Mme Forestier’s reaction when she saw Mathilde and figured out who she was?

35. Shocked

36. Why was Mathilde unhappy with her life?

37. She felt she had been born for a better life

38. What did Mathilde do to help earn money for a new necklace?

39. Washed clothes Washed dishes Carried out garbage

40. Whose point of view is this story told from?

41. Narrator

42. What is the mood of this story

43. Gloomy Nervousness anticipation

44. What can we conclude about Mathilde?

45. She pretends to be someone else

46. In what year did the scientists find the “machine” on the moon?

47. 1996

48. What was the narrator doing when he first noticed the pyramidal structure?

49. Cooking breakfast

50. How did the scientists open the machine?

51. Atomic energy

52. “If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the ______ and have nothing to do but wait”

53. Fire alarm

54. Why did the aliens leave the “machine” on the moon?

55. They wanted to know when we were advanced enough to leave Earth

56. What country was Maya visiting?

57. Ghana

58. What culture did the elder think Maya to belong to?

59. Bambara

60. What was the lady carrying who helped Maya find shelter?

61. Water and her child

62. Who wrote the murder story?

63. Agatha Christie

64. Who was the detective’s assistant?

65. Captain Hastings

66. Who was the detective?

67. Poirot

68. Did the murder take place in London?

69. No

70. This person aided in the murder

71. The housekeeper (Mrs. Havering) Mr. Havering

72. What was used to murder the victim?

73. A revolver

74. How did “Nemesis” find justice?

75. The murderers died

76. What does the necklace represent when Madame Loisel first sees it in the black satin box?

77. It represents the life Madame Loisel desired

78. What does the necklace symbolize after Madame Loisel discovers that it is lost?

79. The life they will never have because of debt

80. How does the meaning of the symbol change when it is revealed that the diamonds in the necklace were fake?

81. It then becomes a symbol fo the emptiness of Mathilde’s vanity and her illusions about happiness

82. Know the ending of “The Sentinel.”