The evidence in the text that suggests Mrs. Mallard did not react as others expected her to when hearing of her husband's death is: "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same." This statement indicates that her response was different from the typical reaction of women in similar situations, implying that her emotional reaction was not what was anticipated by those around her.
Reading Passage: "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin (Excerpt)
Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.
It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.
She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
Question 1
1. What evidence in the text suggests that Mrs. Mallard did not react as others expected her to when hearing of her husband's death?(1 point)
Responses
"She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment."
"She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment."
"It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences."
"It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences."
"She would have no one follow her."
"She would have no one follow her."
"She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same."
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