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Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."The front pattern DOES move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard.And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern—it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads.They get through, and then the pattern strangles them off and turns them upside down, and makes their eyes white!If those heads were covered or taken off it would not be half so bad.I think that woman gets out in the daytime!And I’ll tell you why—privately—I’ve seen her!I can see her out of every one of my windows!It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.I see her on that long road under the trees, creeping along, and when a carriage comes she hides under the blackberry vines.I don’t blame her a bit. It must be very humiliating to be caught creeping by daylight!Whom does the narrator see hiding in the wallpaper?

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herself, trapped in her life
B
Jennie, trapped in her job
C
the neighbor, trapped outside the house
D
Mary, trapped with the baby
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Which of the narrator’s statements in "The Yellow Wallpaper" suggests that she does not think women are too frail to be intellectual?

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I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick!
B
Of course I didn’t do a thing. Jennie sees to everything now.
C
I don’t feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I’m getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.
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So I walk a little in the garden or down that lovely lane, sit on the porch under the roses, and lie down up here a good deal.
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Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."I wonder how it was done and who did it, and what they did it for. Round and round and round—round and round and round—it makes me dizzy!I really have discovered something at last.Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out.The front pattern DOES move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard.And she is all the time trying to climb through.Which statement describes a gothic element in this excerpt that reflects a social attitude of Gilman’s time?

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The fact that the pattern moves contributes to the idea that the narrator’s husband is tyrannical.
B
The fact that the pattern moves creates a sense of mystery and suspense, since the source of the moving is unknown.
C
The image of the woman trying to escape suggests that supernatural forces are present in the narrator’s room.
D
The image of the woman trying to escape contributes to the idea that the narrator feels trapped and unable to control her fate.
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Read the excerpt from "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'"Then, using the remnants of intelligence that remained, and helped by a wise friend, I cast the noted specialist’s advice to the winds and went to work again—work, the normal life of every human being; work, in which is joy and growth and service, without which one is a pauper and a parasite—ultimately recovering some measure of power.Which social attitude of Gilman’s era does this excerpt demonstrate?

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Working gives people a sense of competence and control.
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Working is something that is done with the hands not the mind.
C
Working is only for those who have to make money to survive.
D
Working against a doctor’s advice has negative consequences.
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Why did Gilman most likely choose an unreliable narrator to tell the story of "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

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It helps the reader understand that the narrator is not getting the help she needs.
B
It encourages the reader to question every detail of the story.
C
It helps the reader understand the necessity of the narrator’s treatment.
D
It encourages the reader to sympathize more with all of the other characters.
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Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would not hear of it.He said there was only one window and not room for two beds, and no near room for him if he took another.He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.Which statement describes a gothic element in this excerpt that reflects a social attitude of Gilman’s time?

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John makes decisions on his wife’s behalf, which illustrates that she is not in control of her own fate. ✓ Correct
B
John’s words to his wife indicate that he is a strange and mysterious character who may have other motives.
C
The narrator’s description of the nearly windowless room contributes to the sense of longing and fear.
D
The narrator’s description of the rooms that open to the piazza contributes to the sense of mystery and suspense.
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Read the excerpt from "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'"The little book is valued by alienists and as a good specimen of one kind of literature. It has, to my knowledge, saved one woman from a similar fate—so terrifying her family that they let her out into normal activity and she recovered.What does Gilman indicate is the impact of her work?

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Women are more likely to seek employment that satisfies them.
B
Women are more likely to have a voice in their own treatment.
C
Women are more likely to frighten their families in order to escape them.
D
Women are more likely to read literature that they can relate to.
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Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."At first he meant to repaper the room, but afterwards he said that I was letting it get the better of me, and that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies.Which gothic element in this excerpt reflects a social attitude of Gilman’s time?

A
The narrator feels an inevitable sense of doom.
B
The qualities of the wallpaper create a sense of mystery.
C
John appears to be a supernatural being.
D
John views his wife’s concerns as unimportant and silly. ✓ Correct
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Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am well again. What does the narrator’s description reveal about the social context of the story?

A
Women were able to make their own decisions about working.
B
Doctors were believed to be unquestionably all-knowing.
C
Husbands were reluctant to take doctors’ advice.
D
Wives were considered to be less fragile than husbands.
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Read the excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper."He seems very queer sometimes, and even Jennie has an inexplicable look.It strikes me occasionally, just as a scientific hypothesis,—that perhaps it is the paper!I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most innocent excuses, and I’ve caught him several times LOOKING AT THE PAPER! And Jennie too. I caught Jennie with her hand on it once.Why does the narrator believe that John and Jennie are looking at the wallpaper?

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She thinks that the wallpaper is having the same effect on them as it is on her.
B
She thinks that they are planning to replace the wallpaper with a more pleasing pattern.
C
She thinks that they enjoy studying the images created by the pattern and the colors.
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She thinks that they are attempting to figure out why the different colors bother her.

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