The following text is adapted from Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” This [wall]paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had! There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside-down. … I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store. According to the text, what is true about the speaker?The speaker is being mocked by the wallpaper.eliminateThe speaker perceives the wallpaper as animated.eliminateThe speaker was entertained by the wallpaper as a child.eliminateThe speaker is afraid of the wallpaper.

What does this excerpt from the end of "The Yellow Wallpaper" tell the reader about the narrator's mental shift?I don't like to look out of the windows even — there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast.I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper, as Idid?A.The narrator believes that she was once behind the wallpaper herself.B.The narrator believes the woman behind the wallpaper has finally escaped.C.The narrator believes the creeping women will attack her.D.The narrator believes the window bars will not allow her to escape.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read the passage from Part 2 of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.That was clever, for really I wasn’t alone a bit! As soon as it was moonlight, and that poor thing began to crawl and shake the pattern, I got up and ran to help her.I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper.A strip about as high as my head and half around the room.And then when the sun came and that awful pattern began to laugh at me I declared I would finish it today!Which best describes the narrator’s point of view in this passage?Group of answer choicesShe feels trapped by a society and a marriage that have worsened her mental illness.She is excited to free both herself and the woman from the terrible wallpaper.She thinks her terror is taking over, because she cannot escape the yellow wallpapered room.She believes she is going completely insane, so she begins to obey her delusions.

"The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Then answer the question.Which word best describes the tone of this passage?A.JoyfulB.PanickedC.DullD.Calm

Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" expresses the idea that doctors in the 19th century did not take into account the opinions and needs of mentally ill patients when treating them. Which line from the story best supports this theme?A.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.B.I find it hovering in the dining-room, skulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs.C.Then she said that the paper stained everything it touched, that she had found yellow smooches on all my clothes and John's, and she wished we would be more careful!D.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?SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

What clues tell the reader that "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is written in the first-person point of view?