What do Mathilde and her husband do thatcauses them to lose even their middle-class
standing?
A. They lose a costly borrowed necklace and must go
to the poorhouse as a result.
B. They replace a lost necklace with paste jewelry and
are convicted of stealing as a result.
C. They pretend not to have lost a borrowed necklace
and spend their lives paying for its replacement.
D. They discover that Mathilde wore cheap paste
jewelry to an important social gathering and are
publicly shamed.

Answer:

The correct answer is A. They lose a costly borrowed necklace and must go  to the poorhouse as a result.

Explanation:

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant tells the story of a woman named Mathilde Loisel and her husband, who had an important dance surrounded by elegant people, and Mathilde wanted to attend with new clothes and jewelry. So he decides to borrow a necklace from a friend.

Mathilde had always wanted to be rich, although she and her husband belonged to the middle class.

Upon returning from the dance, Mathilde realizes that she had lost the necklace and instead of being honest with her friend, they decide to buy a new diamond necklace, which cost 36 thousand francs. This caused her and her husband to lose their middle-class standing as they had to work for several years to return that money.

Finally, after many years, Mathilde finds her friend and finds out that the necklace she had borrowed was an imitation that didn't have much value, so Mathilde and her husband spent all that time working and paying debts in vain, for not being honest from the beginning.

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"La Parure" (in French) de Guy de Maupassant

Mathilde Loisel , a lower middle class woman who had always envied aristocratic class, borrowed a diamond necklace to Mme Forestier to go to a party where her husband had been given an invitation . But she lost it.

So they found  and bought another one similar, and had to work hard for the money they had to pay back.

Years later, Mathilde Loisel met Mme Forestier who had lent her the necklace. She couldn't recognize Mathilde; she had changed so much with years and years of hard work, and  she finally told her it was a very cheap and false one she had lent her.

So the most nearer answer is A,

They lose a costly borrowed necklace and must go to the poorhouse as a result

This is one of the books studied in middle school in France.

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