Question

13) Choose the best answers.

The mood of the story shifts from
to
throughout the story.



14) Choose the best answer.

What is the tone of the story?

sympathetic to Masha

bitter toward Ivan

sympathetic to Ivan

matter of fact



15) Choose the best answer.

Which sentence from the story best demonstrates the effect the point of view has on mood and tone?

"Hatred and hope both disappeared at once, and it began immediately to seem to Ivan Dmitrich and his wife that their rooms were dark and small and low-pitched, that the supper they had been eating was not doing them good, but lying heave on their stomachs, that the evenings were long and wearisome..."

"His wife looked at his astonished and panic-stricken face, and realized that he was not joking."

"It is pleasant to travel alone, or in the society of light, careless women who live in the present, and not such as think and talk all the journey about nothing but their children, sigh, and tremble with dismay over every farthing."

"The possibility of winning bewildered them; they could not have said, could not have dreamed, what they both needed that seventy-five thousand for, what they would buy, where they would go."



16) Choose the best answer.

The story is an example of ______ because it puts light on people who are greedy and ambitious.

informative

persuasiveness

exposition

satire



17) Choose the best answer.

What type of conflict is most evident throughout the story?

man vs. self

man vs. animal

man vs. nature

man vs. society

Answer 1

13) hopeful to disillusioned (hopeful to bitter)

14) matter of fact

15) "Hatred and hope both disappeared at once, and it began immediately to seem to Ivan Dmitrich and his wife that their rooms were dark and small and low-pitched, that the supper they had been eating was not doing them good, but lying heave on their stomachs, that the evenings were long and wearisome..."

16) satire

17) man vs. self