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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.
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It encourages the reader to question every detail of the story.
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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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In "The Yellow Wallpaper," which description of John indicates that the narrator does not trust him?

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When I get really well, John says we will ask Cousin Henry and Julia down for a long visit; but he says he would as soon put fireworks in my pillow-case as to let me have those stimulating people about now.
B
He asked me all sorts of questions, too, and pretended to be very loving and kind.
C
He says no one but myself can help me out of it, that I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me.
D
John says I musn’t lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of ale and wine and rare meat.
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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 "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.
B
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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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.
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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.
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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.'"Being naturally moved to rejoicing by this narrow escape, I wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, with its embellishments and additions, to carry out the ideal (I never had hallucinations or objections to my mural decorations) and sent a copy to the physician who so nearly drove me mad. He never acknowledged it.What was Gilman’s most likely reason for sending a copy of her story to her former physician?

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She wanted him to prescribe a new treatment plan for her.
B
She wanted him to come visit her to discuss her work.
C
She wanted to show him that his treatment plan was wrong.
D
She wanted to encourage him to continue treating her.
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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?

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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.
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In "The Yellow Wallpaper," what does the narrator’s focus on the spreading smell of the wallpaper indicate is happening?

A
She has become obsessed with the wallpaper.
B
She does not think that Jennie is a good housekeeper.
C
She resents John for renting a house in the country.
D
She prefers fog and rain to other weather.
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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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In "The Yellow Wallpaper," which description of the narrator’s room best indicates that it probably was not a nursery in the past?

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It is a big, airy room . . . with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore.
B
The furniture in this room is no worse than inharmonious, however, for we had to bring it all from downstairs.
C
There is a very funny mark on this wall, low down, near the mopboard.
D
The windows are barred . . . and there are rings and things in the walls.

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