The Mark on the Wall Quizzes

The Mark on the Wall Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed January 26, 2019

1 The narrator is

totally ambiguous

most likely a woman

a woman

a child
2 What month did she see the mark on the wall?

January

December

February

March
3 What was she doing when she first saw the mark?

Conversing

Playing piano

Reading

Sewing
4 The burning coals remind her of

tombs

Shakespeare

a flag on a castle

flowers
5 "our thoughts swarm upon a new object" like

ants

snowflakes

bees

rats
6 The people who moved out of the house did so because

they made more money

someone in the family died

their children did not like it

they wanted to change their style of furniture
7 The first thing she thinks the mark is is

a smudge

a snail

a nail

a hole
8 She thinks we have little control over

our thoughts

our possessions

our friends

our fortunes
9 Which of the following is not one of the possessions she reflects on losing?

bird cages

bagatelle board

furs

jewels
10 She says life seems to be

rapid

haphazard

full of waste

all of these things
11 She observes that she may not be a vigilant

housekeeper

thinker

scholar

wife
12 What does she wish to do?

Die

Sink deeper into her thoughts

Fall asleep

Wake up and talk and move
13 The "first idea" that she decides to come upon is

Locke

Shakespeare

Milton

Dickens
14 She finds thinking about "historical fiction" very

exciting

confusing

silly

dull
15 What were "they" discussing when she came into the room?

Botany

Religion

Archeology

Philosophy
16 She says that we do all the following EXCEPT _____ to the figure in our minds.

avoid anything to make oneself ridiculous

openly adore it

protect oneself from idolatry

dress it up
17 If we are only left with the shell of ourselves, the world is

ours to change and control

full of life

confusing and complex

airless and shallow
18 What word brings back ideas of Sunday luncheons and rules and habits?

Images

Generalizations

Phantoms

Reflections
19 The _________ point of view governs our lives.

masculine

general

religious

metaphysical
20 Where should the "phantoms" go?

Hell

Our minds

The dustbin

The ether
21 All the following are examples of "phantoms" except

Hell

snails and flowers

Landseer prints

Gods and Devils
22 In some lights, the mark seems

to grow smaller

to have irregular borders

to move

to project from the wall
23 The "tumulus" aspect of the mark makes her think of

a flag on a castle

looking up at the surface of a pond from its depths

Whitaker's Table of Precedency

the barrows on South Downs
24 She hopes that the barrows are actually

homes

camps

filled with treasure

tombs
25 Who is likely to be an antiquary?

Young scholars

An old nurse

Bored wives

A retired colonel

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