CLASS AS A FIXED QUALITY

Question 1

I.3 (1st)

Answer 1

She belonged to the class of old New Yorkers who have always lived well, dressed expensively, and done little else; and to these inherited obligations Mrs. Peniston faithfully conformed.

Question 2

I.3 (2nd)

Answer 2

There was a little money left, but to Mrs. Bart it seemed worse than nothing—the mere mockery of what she was entitled to. What was the use of living if one had to live like a pig?

Question 3

I.14

Answer 3

but he could separate the woman he knew from the vulgar estimate of her

Question 4

II.3 (1st)

Answer 4

She had risen, and stood before him in a kind of clouded majesty, like some deposed princess moving tranquilly to exile.

Question 5

II.3 (2nd)

Answer 5

The faint disdain of her smile seemed to lift her high above her antagonist’s reach,

Question 6

II.4

Answer 6

in the way I was brought up, … Or no—I won’t blame anybody for my faults: I’ll say it was in my blood [that an aristocratic ancestress from the court of the Charles’ reacted against New Amsterdam morality]

Question 7

II.10

Answer 7

I have joined the working classes. … He stared in genuine wonder.