THE WIVES OF THE DEAD- Common lit

PART A: How do the deaths of their husbands affect the relationship between Mary and Margaret?

A They comfort each other but prefer to mourn separately.

B They share in their grief and become closer.

C Without their husbands as links between them, they drift apart.

D They discover how different their personalities are, which drives them apart.

PART B: Which quote best supports the answer to Part A?

A “Two young and comely women sat together by the fireside, nursing their mutual and peculiar sorrows.” ( paragraph 1)

B “She now shrunk from Mary’s words, like a wounded sufferer from a hand that revives the throb.” ( paragraph 3)

C “United, as they had been, by the relationship of the living, and now more closely so by that of the dead, each felt as if whatever consolation her grief admitted, were to be found in the bosom of the other.” ( paragraph 1)

D “Yet she trembled at these rebellious expressions, almost as soon as they were uttered, and, by degrees, Mary succeeded in bringing her sister’s mind nearer to the situation of her own.” ( paragraph 5)