Chapter 3 : Necklace
Words & Meanings
Pretty خوبصورت Charming دلکش Though اگرچہ Mod
Daydreamed دن میں خواب دیکھا Clothes سلے ہوئے کپڑے Grand بڑی/ اعلی Elite
Expensive مہنگے Afford برداشت کرنا Invitation دعوت نامہ Toss
Thrilled پرجوش Sour ناراض Quite بالکل/ کافی Burs
Gasped ہانپ گیا۔ Outfit لباس Francs فرانس کی کرنسی See
Embarrassed شرمندہ Borrow ادھار لینا Enough کافی Sho
Hugged گلے لگایا Shabby خستہ حال Cab ٹیکسی Give
Was Deject مایوس تھا Was horrified خوفزدہ تھا Replace بدل دینا Inhe
Interest سود Coldly دھمیے لہجے میں Debt قرض Scru
Peasant کسان Sous کے تحت Strolling ٹہلنا Fam
Questions & Answers :
1. Who was Mathilde? To whom was she married?
Ans. Mathilde was a pretty, charming, middle-class girl. She was married to Loisel, a clerk, who
worked in the Ministry of Education.
2. What was she dreamt of?
Ans. She always dreamed about being rich. She was unhappy because she couldn’t afford fine
clothes and couldn’t attend grand parties given and attended by the elite of the city. She always
dreamt of owning a large collection of fancy clothes and expensive jewellery.
3. Why did her husband give her?
Ans. Her husband gave her an invitation one evening. This invitation was a gift for her according
to her husband as it was the invitation of a grand party and she wanted to attend grand parties.
4. What did her husband say about the invitation?
Ans. When her husband gave the invitation of grand party to her, he said, “Everybody wants to
go, but few clerks can. The most important people will be there.”
5. Why was she upset after the invitation?
Ans. She was very upset after getting the invitation as she thought that she had no valuable
outfit to wear in the party. So she insisted her husband to buy some precious outfit for her for
the party.
6. What was the cost of her outfit?
Ans. She had no precious outfit to wear in the party so she was agreed to buy new outfit but she
was not cleared about the price of her new outfit as she says, “I am not exactly sure, may be I
could manage with four hundred francs.”
7. Why was she embarrassed?
Ans. Though she had got some francs from her husband for her new outfit but she was still
embarrassed about her jewellery. She thought that she had no precious jewellery to wear in the
grand party. So she was embarrassed.
8. What jewellery did she wear in the party and how did she get it?
Ans. As she was a middle-class girl so she had no any precious jewellery to wear in the party.
But she wore a diamond necklace in the grand party which she borrowed from her friend.
9. How was the grand party?
Ans. The grand party was wonderful for her as she was locking prettiest one in the party. She
was stylish, warm, smiling and very happy. She danced joyfully and had a wonderful time in the
party.
10. How did Loisel collect the required money?
Ans. Loisel had eighteen thousand francs he had inherited from his father. He borrowed the rest.
He got a thousand francs from one, four hundred from another— a hundred here, sixty there. He
borrowed the rest of the money from moneylenders on very high interest.
11. How did they pay their debt back?
Ans. They suffered a lot. She cooked and did housework on her own. She scrubbed the laundry,
took out the garbage, carried up water, and dressed like a peasant while her husband worked
evening as a bookkeeper, and at night he copied documents for five sous a page.
12. How was Forestier met her and what did she tell her about the necklace?
Ans. One Sunday she went for a walk and met Forestier while strolling with a child. When
Mathilde told her the story of the necklace, Forestier told her that the necklace was fake and
artificial.
13. Why did M. Loisel expect his wife to be pleased to receive the invitation?
Ans. M. Loisel expected his wife to be pleased to receive the invitation as she always dreamt of
becoming rich and mix with rich people. She wanted to attend the grand parties and wanted to
wear expensive outfit and jewellery.
14. What was Mathilde’s reaction on reading the invitation?
Ans. When she read the invitation of the grand party she became angry with her husband saying
that she had no any expensive dress and jewellery to wear in the party. She says,” I don’t have
any party dress so I can’t go to that party.”
15. Who was Albert Guy de Maupassant?
Ans. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a French writer who was born on 5th August
1850 and died on 6th July 1893 was remembered as a master of the short story form. He wrote
300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. His first published
story, “Boule de Suif” (“The Dumpling”, 1880), is often considered his most famous work.
