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The YellowWallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I wish I could get well faster.
But I must not think about that. This paper looks tome as if it knew what a vicious influence it had!
There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls likea broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at youupside-down.
I get positively angry with the impertinence of it andthe everlastingness. Up and down and sidewaysthey crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes areeverywhere. There is one place where two breadthsdidn’t match, and the eyes go all up and down theline, one a little higher than the other.
I never saw so much expression in an inanimatething before, and we all know how much expressionthey have! I used to lie awake as a child and getmore entertainment and terror out of blank walls andplain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.
I remember what a kindly wink the knobs of our bigold bureau used to have, and there was one chairthat always seemed like a strong friend.
I used to feel that if any of the other things lookedtoo fierce I could always hop into that chair and besafe.
The furniture in this room is no worse thaninharmonious, however, for we had to bring it allfrom downstairs. I suppose when this was used as aplayroom they had to take the nursery things out,and no wonder! I never saw such ravages as thechildren have made here.
The wallpaper, as I said before, is torn off in spots,and it sticketh closer than a brother—they must havehad perseverance as well as hatred.
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Use the passage to answer the question.
What does the flashback mainly reveal aboutthe narrator?
(1 point)
She had insomnia as a child.
She has always had a very vivid
imagination.
She never felt safe as a child.
She has always been concerned with
furnishings.
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Then the floor is scratched and gouged andsplintered, the plaster itself is dug out here andthere, and this great heavy bed, which is all wefound in the room, looks as if it had been through thewars.
But I don’t mind it a bit—only the paper.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Why might authors choose to tell a story using third-person omniscient point of view?
(1 point)
It lets them get inside every character’s head.
It lets them address the reader directly.
It lets them focus on one character but still remain outside the story.
It lets them tell the story from the perspective of a character in the story.
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The YellowWallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I wish I could get well faster.
But I must not think about that. This paper looks tome as if it
knew
what a vicious influence it had!
There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls likea broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at youupside-down.
I get positively angry with the impertinence of it andthe everlastingness. Up and down and sidewaysthey crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes areeverywhere. There is one place where two breadthsdidn’t match, and the eyes go all up and down theline, one a little higher than the other.
I never saw so much expression in an inanimatething before, and we all know how much expressionthey have! I used to lie awake as a child and getmore entertainment and terror out of blank walls andplain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.
I remember what a kindly wink the knobs of our bigold bureau used to have, and there was one chairthat always seemed like a strong friend.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Use the passage to answer the question.
What effect does the first-person perspectiveused in this passage have on the reader?
(1 point)
It gives them a clear and detailed
description of the setting by appealing to
the senses.
It reveals to the reader how the narrator
truly feels about her illness and
confinement.
It shows the reader how annoyed the
main character has become with the
wallpaper.
It helps the reader understand the main
character better by revealing her past.
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Jeeves TakesCharge
by P. G. Wodehouse
‘If half of what he has written is true,’ said Florence,‘your uncle’s youth must have been perfectlyappalling. The moment we began to read heplunged straight into a most scandalous story of howhe and my father were thrown out of a music-hall in1887! . . . The book is full of stories like that. Thereis a dreadful one about Lord Emsworth.’
‘Lord Emsworth? Not the one we know? Not the oneat Blandings?’
A most respectable old Johnnie, don’t you know.Doesn’t do a thing nowadays but dig in the gardenwith a spud.
‘The very same. That is what makes the book sounspeakable. It is full of stories about people oneknows who are the essence of propriety today, butwho seem to have behaved, when they were inLondon in the eighties, in a manner that would nothave been tolerated in the fo’c’sle of a whaler. Youruncle seems to remember everything disgracefulthat happened to anybody when he was in his earlytwenties. There is a story about Sir StanleyGervase-Gervase at Rosherville Gardens which isghastly in its perfection of detail. It seems that SirStanley—but I can’t tell you!’ . . .
And father appears in nearly every story in the book!I am horrified at the things he did when he was ayoung man!’
‘What’s to be done?’
‘The manuscript must be intercepted before itreaches Riggs and Ballinger, and destroyed!’
"Jeeves Takes Charge" by P. G. Wodehouse
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Use the passage to answer the question.
Why does the author describe Florence’sreaction to Uncle Willoughby’s manuscript?
(1 point)
to explain her fear of adventure
to establish the historic context of the
setting
to characterize her as obsessed with
social standing
to reinforce the theme that youth is
wasted on the young

Answer 1

Question 1
What does the flashback mainly reveal about the narrator?
Answer: She has always had a very vivid imagination.

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Question 2
Why might authors choose to tell a story using third-person omniscient point of view?
Answer: It lets them get inside every character’s head.

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Question 3
What effect does the first-person perspective used in this passage have on the reader?
Answer: It reveals to the reader how the narrator truly feels about her illness and confinement.

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Question 4
Why does the author describe Florence’s reaction to Uncle Willoughby’s manuscript?
Answer: to characterize her as obsessed with social standing.