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

a child

most likely a woman

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

December

February

March

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

Conversing

Reading

Sewing

Playing piano
4 The burning coals remind her of

a flag on a castle

flowers

Shakespeare

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

ants

bees

rats

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

they made more money

someone in the family died

they wanted to change their style of furniture

their children did not like it
7 The first thing she thinks the mark is is

a snail

a hole

a smudge

a nail
8 She thinks we have little control over

our possessions

our fortunes

our thoughts

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

jewels

bagatelle board

bird cages

furs
10 She says life seems to be

full of waste

rapid

haphazard

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

housekeeper

thinker

wife

scholar
12 What does she wish to do?

Fall asleep

Die

Sink deeper into her thoughts

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

Locke

Shakespeare

Dickens

Milton
14 She finds thinking about "historical fiction" very

dull

silly

exciting

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

Philosophy

Religion

Botany

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

protect oneself from idolatry

dress it up

avoid anything to make oneself ridiculous

openly adore it
17 If we are only left with the shell of ourselves, the world is

full of life

airless and shallow

ours to change and control

confusing and complex
18 What word brings back ideas of Sunday luncheons and rules and habits?

Images

Reflections

Generalizations

Phantoms
19 The _________ point of view governs our lives.

general

masculine

metaphysical

religious
20 Where should the "phantoms" go?

Hell

Our minds

The ether

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

Gods and Devils

Hell

snails and flowers

Landseer prints
22 In some lights, the mark seems

to grow smaller

to project from the wall

to have irregular borders

to move
23 The "tumulus" aspect of the mark makes her think of

Whitaker's Table of Precedency

looking up at the surface of a pond from its depths

a flag on a castle

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

tombs

homes

camps

filled with treasure
25 Who is likely to be an antiquary?

An old nurse

A retired colonel

Young scholars

Bored wives