SOCIAL MORALITY

Question 1

I.9 (1st)

Answer 1

it is for having betrayed its connivance that the body social punishes the offender who is found out.

Question 2

I.9 (2nd)

Answer 2

The code of Lily’s world decreed that a woman’s husband should be the only judge of her conduct:

Question 3

I.3 (1st)

Answer 3

she had the kind of moral mauvaise honte which makes the public display of selfishness difficult, though it does not interfere with its private indulgence.

Question 4

I.3 (2nd)

Answer 4

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 5

I.9 (3rd)

Answer 5

dreary as a tomb … she felt as though she were buried alive in the stifling limits of Mrs. Peniston’s existence. … seemed as dreary as a prison

Question 6

II.4

Answer 6

Or no—I won’t blame anybody for my faults: I’ll say it was in my blood, that I got it from some wicked pleasure-loving ancestress, who reacted against the homely virtues of New Amsterdam, and wanted to be back at the court of the Charleses!