a modern instance quiz Flashcards
The following passage refers to which character?
“This boy–for he was only nineteen–worked at his craft early and late out of pleasure in it. He seemed one of those simple, subordinate natures which are happy in looking up to whatever assumes to be above them. He exulted to serve in a world where most people prefer to be served . . .”
Henry Bird
The one unexpected experience Clara Kingsbury shares with Bartley Hubbard is that:
She, too, was an orphan raised by other kind-hearted people.
In contrast to Mr. Ricker, the editor of The Chronicle-Abstract, Mr. Witherby, the editor of The Events, operates his newspaper on the principle that:
Newspapers are in the business of making a profit for their owners.
The name of the village where Marcia Gaylord was raised connotes:
Justice applied in cases the law does not cover.
Having received Ben Halleck’s letter seeking advice about marrying the divorced and widowed Marcia Hubbard, Eustace Atherton responds by:
Declining to respond at all to Halleck.
The following passage refers to which character?
“In this poor lady, who had so long denied herself spiritual comfort, there was a certain obscure luxury: she liked little dainties of the table; she liked soft warmth, an easy cushion. It was doubtless in the disintegration of the finer qualities of her nature, that as they grew older together, she threw more and more the burden of acute feeling upon the husband to whose doctrine of life she had submitted, but had never been reconciled.”
Mrs. Gaylord
Although Bartley and Marcia have a minister’s certificate verifying the legality of their marriage, the contract is fraudulent because:
They have not publicly declared to the minister their intention to marry.
After Ben Halleck reluctantly agrees to lend Bartley Hubbard a considerable amount of money to compensate for his temporarily decreased salary at The Events, Bartley demonstrates his true character by:
Attempting to use Ben Halleck’s money to wager on the presidential election.
The incident in the Hubbard’s marriage that finally precipitates Bartley’s abandonment of his wife, Marcia:
Marcia confronts Bartley about Hannah Morrison’s most recent claims against him.
Once Witherby expresses his moral disapproval of Bartley for publishing Kinney’s personal story without his consent, he sees an even more serious infraction when he discovers Bartley has also:
Allowed Kinney to believe it was Ricker who betrayed Kinney’s trust and wrote the story.
