(adapted from a GAVL assignment)
- Why did the beautiful and charming main character (Mathilde Loisel) marry a minor civil servant (an unimportant government employee)?
- What did Mathilde want more than anything else?
- Why does Mathilde think she cannot go to the ball to which she and her husband received invitations?
- Mathilde’s husband give her ______________ to buy a new dress to wear to the ball and suggests that she borrow ________________________ from her friend, Madame Forestier.
- What does Mathilde discover when she returns from the ball that night?
- How do Mathilde and her husband try to cover up the loss?
- The new necklace cost __________ francs. They borrowed the money to buy it.
- How long does it take the Loisels to pay back the money?
- When Mathilde sees her friend Madame Forestier again after ten years, Madame Forestier tells Mathilde that the necklace she let her borrow to wear to the ball was _______________ and that it was not worth more than _____________ francs.
- Give an example of situational irony from the story.