The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

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Chapter 1

Questions

1. In what month and year does the novel open?
2. What public event is everyone attending?
3. Why does Newland Archer look at May Welland in such a satisfied manner?
4. What has scandalized everyone who is anyone by the end of the chapter?

Answers

1. January 1870
2. An opera
3. They're engaged to be married.
4. A young woman has entered Mrs. Mingott's box.