1. Which sentence from paragraphs 1 and 2 identify that the story takes place in the distant past? (6D)
Select TWO correct answers.
a. Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her
as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.
b. It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in
half-concealing.
c. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her.
d. It was he who had been at the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was
received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed."
e. He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram and had hastened
to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad messages